Time to Stop Using Suicide For Political Point-Scoring
The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Psychology
A collection of 87 posts
Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History
“What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster.
Tomas Bogardus
· 19 min read
Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior
Its associated victimhood mentality, and the culture of (now state-sponsored) weaponized sensitivity that this mentality has incubated.
Maziar Ghaderi
· 8 min read
We Need Guidelines for Working with Men, but Not the APA Guidelines
This outcome highlights an alarming gender difference in outcome that should galvanise psychologists to take gender-sensitivity very seriously indeed.
John Barry
· 4 min read
Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys
Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,
Quillette
· 19 min read
Stupid Is as Stupid Writes
Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.
Andrew Bade
· 12 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Matthew Lesh
· 10 min read
Taming the Lizard Brain
The history of consumerism can be seen be as the growing sophistication to tie our primitive instincts to consumption behaviours.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality
Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.
Wael Taji
· 13 min read
Science Reformers Reduce Political Bias in Psychology
Intellectual diversity and science reform should be two well-coordinated efforts. Each strengthens the other.
Lee Jussim
· 7 min read