Psychology
Human behavior is fascinating — and we still have a lot to learn. Keep up with news and updates from the field of psychology.
A new book explores the history of individualism in the West.
Teens were hospitalized for suicide. Researchers then asked them to think about the adults who cared about them.
One of the great mysteries of adult life — and psychology.
Why the historian David Wootton thinks we should question our assumptions about human psychology.
It’s not social media.
Motivated reasoning, bias, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more, explained.
Gaslighting, explained.
A psychologist explains our obsession with other people’s opinions.
When the number of victims in a tragedy increases, our empathy decreases.
Increasingly, Americans are bringing pets on planes to destress. But there’s little rigorous evidence to back them up.
They’re not wrong to be.
Swedish researcher Carl Cederström on how corporations redefined happiness and turned hippies into Reagan voters.
Ignore Jerry Maguire — you don’t need someone to complete you.
What Google searches for porn tell us about ourselves.
Why society might be more stable if we had more poverty and less inequality.
The dire forecast for Hurricane Florence has prompted mandatory evacuation orders for more than a million people. Yet some will ignore the orders.
A conversation with author Michael Pollan on becoming a “reluctant psychonaut.”
Results show supporters are prejudiced, dehumanizing, and aggressive.
Kids are susceptible to “hidden manipulation techniques” by companies like Facebook and Twitter.
Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
How far will Republicans follow their leader?
Scientists are starting to figure out why these GIFs are so damn loud.
What’s the scientific value of the Stanford Prison Experiment? Zimbardo responds to the new allegations against his work.
Get out of your own head.
Cognitive bias is in all human thoughts. Even mental images of God.
This damning audio debunks the famed research.
The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated. Textbooks need to catch up.
The Crisis Text Line uses machine learning to figure out who’s at risk and when to intervene.
The famous psychology test gets roasted in the new era of replication.
Peterson sounds like a stereotypical postmodernist.
“Yanny” and “Laurel,” “the dress,” and the nature of reality.
A philosophy professor explains why.
We should probably think about them now.
“We’re always on, always plugged in, always stimulated, always in a constant state of self-presentation.”
There’s no good evidence yet that personality profiling can influence elections.
A recent study shows why Twitter’s fake news problem will be so hard to solve.
Some people have a biological clock naturally set to a later time.
The theorists aren’t afraid of the truth. They’re afraid of where it leads.