Meaning Matters
Religion isn’t just like any organization or group that affords people the opportunity to socialize.
Clay Routledge
· 8 min read
Psychology
A collection of 111 posts
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
· 19 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, Rob Henderson
· 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
· 21 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 19 min read
Quillette Podcast 7 — Jonathan Church on White Privilege and Unconscious Bias
Associate editor Toby Young talks to Jonathan Church, Quillette contributor and economist, about ‘white privilege,’ ‘white fragility,’ ‘color-blind racism,’ ‘unconscious bias,’ ‘micro-aggressions’ and why the Social Justice Left is more interested in punishing whites than understanding the complexity of racial inequality.
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Ideology of Corbynism
As they say in the preface, “This is the first book that sets out to take Corbynism seriously and critically as a semi-coherent set of ideas.”
Tomiwa Owolade
· 6 min read
Stupid Is as Stupid Writes
Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.
Andrew Bade
· 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
· 10 min read
Linda Gottfredson's Scientific Keynote Was Cancelled — Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Stereotypes Are Often Harmful — and Accurate
Stereotyping begets many social problems, but you seldom solve a problem by mischaracterizing its nature.
Noam Shpancer
· 13 min read