Psychology - Quillette (Page 6)

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 · 9 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 · 8 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

Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys

Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,

Quillette

4 Feb 2019 · 19 min read

Stupid Is as Stupid Writes

Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.

Andrew Bade

14 Nov 2018 · 12 min read

Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness

While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.

Stewart Justman

2 Nov 2018 · 10 min read

Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?

A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.

Rosalind Arden

12 Oct 2018 · 5 min read

Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?

Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.

Matthew Lesh

2 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

Taming the Lizard Brain

The history of consumerism can be seen be as the growing sophistication to tie our primitive instincts to consumption behaviours.

Tanveer Ahmed

27 Aug 2018 · 6 min read

The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality

Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.

Wael Taji

25 Aug 2018 · 13 min read

Science Reformers Reduce Political Bias in Psychology

Intellectual diversity and science reform should be two well-coordinated efforts. Each strengthens the other.

Lee Jussim

24 Aug 2018 · 7 min read