Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
David Canter considers whether ‘all-purpose’ police forces a no longer fit for purpose.
David Canter considers some implications of ChatGPT and what it tells us about real intelligence, general, artificial or otherwise.
David Canter considers the strange phenomena of Russians believing Putin’s propaganda.
David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions.
David Canter follows his concern that psychologists are losing contact with people by considering how computers are presented as replacements for human ‘intelligence’. This ignores the importance of in situ person to person contact, which has been shown by the COVID pandemic to be so crucial for people.
David Canter discusses the alienation between people that is being generated by a combination of fears of interpersonal contact and the power of the internet. Is a new world emerging in which isolated avatars replace social interaction?
My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the internet to […]
David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.