Tagged “psychology”
- Beauty, Truth and the Size of Working Memory
- Emotion: The Enemy of Reason
- IQ and Religious Belief: What the Correlation Actually Says
- Why People Believe the Bible: The Social, Psychological and Cognitive Machinery
- Why Believers Wear Symbols and Non-Believers Do Not
- Human Intelligence Is Probably on the Lower Rungs of the Ladder
- Rationality Is the Exception: Humans Were Not Built to Think
- Voting for a Person Is How You Get Rid of the Responsibility to Understand
- Representative Democracy Is Designed to Make Half the Country Distrust Its Government
- Why the Religious Right Believes People Are Bad
- Believers Do Not Believe, and Apologetics Is Not What Religion Is For
- The Unaligned Steering Wheel: Why Religious Confirmation Bias Is Larger
- Courtship Is a Signalling Game, and the Signals Have Reasons
- Trust in Government Is Not a Nicety, It Is the Thing That Makes a State Work
- There Are Only Two Levers on Human Behaviour, and We Can Pull One
- Why You Stay With Your Side Even When the Other Side Is Right
- The Lottery Salesman Who Agreed With Me and Kept Selling
- The Men Who Lied About Iraq Also Killed People in the Pandemic
- You Fight Differently When Everything You Own Is on the Beach
- Mass Mourning for People Nobody Knew
- If a Tweet Can Move a Market, the Fault Is the Market's
- Half of Our Alienation Is Biology, the Other Half Is Policy
- Who Sets the Dose of Self-Deception a Society Runs On?
- Being Part of Something Larger Makes People Happy, and Voting Every Four Years Is Not It
- Direct Democracy Is the Natural Arrangement, Representation Is the Strange One
- The Sweet Spot of Climate Alarm, and Why Nobody Aims for It
- Films Are Negative for a Reason, and It Is Not the Reason I Am
- The Attribution Error Is What Keeps the Political System Unquestioned
- Frankl's Logotherapy Dodges the Contradiction It Should Confront
- People Do Not Actually Want the Truth
- History Books Should Carry a Warning About the Great-Man Bias
- What Do Hierarchies Actually Select For?
- Should Society Push People to Act Against Their Instincts?
- Leaders Believe Their Own Ideology Less Than the Public Does