Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Matthew Lesh
· 10 min read
Psychology
A collection of 111 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read
The Infantilisation of Black America
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
Tosin Akintola
· 8 min read
Medicine Must Not Forget the Psychosocial
The real beauty of the biopsychosocial approach is that it has application to the individual (both in terms of causal explanation and of treatment offered), to the wider population, and to research.
Tim Rogers
· 8 min read