Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Throughout the 20th century, psychological knowledge managed to break free from the confines of academic debates and clinical practice, defining, by the early 21st century at the latest, how we think about who we are, how we feel, what our goals in life are, how we form relationships with others, and how society’s institutions operate
Table of Contents Author Biographies Contributors Acknowledgements Section A: Setting the scene The need for a social identity analysis of COVID-19 A […]
David Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.
A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence […]
The Conversation asked Ore Koren, even as what some are calling an insurrection unfolded at the U.S. Capitol, to ask him for some perspective on the event.
Is it possible that the experience of receiving gifts we do not like can take a toll on our mental well-being? Is […]
Psychologist Mike Tomasello details how, while higher primates may be quite like humans in many respects, the ability to work together on projects is not one of them.
David Canter considers why the social sciences failed to influence behavior in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. The virologists had been preparing for a new virus for some years, so were already ahead of the game when they had to start creating a new vaccine. What preparations had social psychologists, sociologists or anthropologists for the inevitable emergence of a new pandemic?