The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’ Before a youth makes the decision to murder, before the gun is stashed in his backpack, before his state of mental health is so deteriorated that he commits the unthinkable, what has happened to him? Terry Newman 7 Aug 2019 · 8 min read
The Other Crisis in Psychology psychological scientists recognize unwarranted causal inferences when evaluating others’ research but miss it in their own, perhaps because of ideological and self-serving biases. April L. Bleske-Rechek 30 Jul 2019 · 16 min read
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of....What Exactly? The same is true of happiness and positivity. They’re not mere feelings. They are behaviors. Steve Salerno 24 Jul 2019 · 14 min read
Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Own Demons In the months leading up to the news, I was in a bad place. Nothing in life felt right, and every day was a fight against hopelessness—to the point that even when good things happened, I would remain afraid or numb. Neil Gray 21 Jul 2019 · 8 min read
Why We Shouldn't Bet on Having Free Will—A Reply to William Edwards It makes no more sense to believe in a numinous “will” that subverts the laws of physics than to accept a god for which there’s no evidence. Any reforms of society should begin by accepting the unalterable truths of nature. Jerry A. Coyne 17 Jul 2019 · 6 min read
Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research. Christopher J. Ferguson 15 Jul 2019 · 6 min read
She Did Not Go Gently The placebo effect is real. It’s measurable. It’s why we have placebo trials in medical research—because the hope buried inside that sugar pill has a measurable medical benefit. Hope is literally medicine, and it’s powerful stuff. B.J. Campbell 27 Apr 2019 · 8 min read
Meaning Matters Religion isn’t just like any organization or group that affords people the opportunity to socialize. Clay Routledge 26 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology? Instead of dispassionately inquiring into scientific questions, facts from politically controversial research are being distorted out of concern for how the data might be used by the worst among us. Alex Mackiel 8 Apr 2019 · 18 min read
What Doesn’t Kill Us Brings Us Together Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different. Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson 7 Apr 2019 · 13 min read
On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal. Matthew Blackwell 30 Mar 2019 · 20 min read
Time to Stop Using Suicide For Political Point-Scoring The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout. Louise Perry 27 Mar 2019 · 8 min read
Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History “What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster. Tomas Bogardus 13 Mar 2019 · 19 min read
Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior Its associated victimhood mentality, and the culture of (now state-sponsored) weaponized sensitivity that this mentality has incubated. Maziar Ghaderi 20 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
We Need Guidelines for Working with Men, but Not the APA Guidelines This outcome highlights an alarming gender difference in outcome that should galvanise psychologists to take gender-sensitivity very seriously indeed. John Barry 13 Feb 2019 · 4 min read