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Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Living in the Web of Soft Climate Denial
Michael Hoexter, Ph.D. · Posted on September 7, 2016
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?
Ruth C. White Ph.D. · What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Why Some People Resent "Do-Gooders"
Juliana Breines Ph.D. · Behaving according to one’s moral principles can make others feel implicitly judged.
Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting
Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we...
How Valid Is Evolutionary Psychology?
How Valid Is Evolutionary Psychology?
Steve Taylor, Ph.D. · How a Caricature of Human Nature Leads Evolutionary Psychology Astray
Does Money Make You Mean?
Does Money Make You Mean?
Susan Weinschenk Ph.D. · When my children were young we used to play the game Monopoly. This was one of my son’s favorite games. And mine. It got to the point where no one would play with us anymore. We were too tough, too ruthless. The games would go on...
The Psychology of Religion: A Force For Good or Evil?
The Psychology of Religion: A Force For Good or Evil?
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · Is religion the source of conflict, or are deeper problems to blame? Militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins compare religion to a virus which infects human minds and turns potentially rational people into dogmatic automatons, willing...
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
Steve Taylor Ph.D. · Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate...
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other...