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Edward Bernays: Prophet of "Spin" - Law & Liberty
Edward Bernays: Prophet of "Spin" - Law & Liberty "As Bernays saw it, a healthy democratic society requires the regulation of the beliefs of the many by the work of an unseen few. Such people understand the principles of psychology...
The Psychology of Progressive Hostility - Quillette
The Psychology of Progressive Hostility - Quillette Matthew Blackwell writes: "Both Sowell and Pinker contend that conservatives see an unfortunate world of moral trade-offs in which every moral judgment comes with costs that must be properly balanced. Progressives, on the...
Is Sexual Orientation Immutable? The Science May Surprise You. | The Stream
Is Sexual Orientation Immutable? The Science May Surprise You. | The Stream "In a fascinating YouTube speech at Cornell University (2013), [University of Utah psychology professor Lisa] Diamond describes her research on sexual orientation, which surprised her. She expected sexual orientation to be...
Sean Parker unloads on Facebook "exploiting" human weakness
Sean Parker unloads on Facebook "exploiting" human weakness Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, told Axios that he's become "something of a conscientious objector" on social media: "When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up...
Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds | Psychology Today
Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds | Psychology Today "The unloved daughter doesn't know that she is loveable or worthy of attention; she may have grown up feeling ignored or unheard or criticized at every turn. The voice in...
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine "For a few decades, it's been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate...
Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence "First off, there are, I believe, really two reasons why we're so bad at making estimates. The first is the sort of irreducible one: writing software involves figuring out something in...
All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - Life - The Atlantic
All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - Life - The Atlantic "An article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Play details not only how much children's play...
Scientist explains conservatism's success - Crunchy Con
Scientist explains conservatism's success - Crunchy Con Psychologist Jonathan Haidt: "I would say that the second rule of moral psychology is that morality is not just about how we treat each other (as most liberals think); it is also about...
Psychology and Christianity: The Psychology of Judgmentalism - 2
Psychology and Christianity: The Psychology of Judgmentalism - 2 The seven distinctions of healthy judgment, as opposed to judgmentalism: Concern, benefit of the doubt, tolerance, denouncing behavior or ideas instead of people, openness, formation over time, careful decision making. (Via...
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