Tag: Psychology

We Aren’t the World

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: March 13, 2013

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

Posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged cognition, cognitive science, Culture, religion, social science, sociology, study of religion | Leave a comment

Undercover Pressures

By David Canter | Published: March 12, 2013

Many fictional accounts of working undercover suggest it is just one long adventure. That is a portrayal by actors, who live to act as if they are someone else. They never suffer the consequences.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Colin Stagg, crime, Criminology, Donnie Brasco, Gary Frakas, Joseph D. Pistone, Laurence Miller, Lizzie James, Michel Girodo, Mossad, police work, psychological disturbance, Psycological trauma, PTSD, Rachel Nickell, Raj Persaud, social science, Wimbledon Common, Working Undercover | 1 Comment

The Myths of Offender Profiling.

By David Canter | Published: February 15, 2013

Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy, Research Ethics, Research Methods | Also tagged big data, crime, criminal justice, Criminal Profiling, Criminology, David Canter, Law, Police Reports, policing, social science | 4 Comments

Podcast: Daniel Kahneman on Bias

By Social Science Bites | Published: January 4, 2013

Thinking is hard, and most of the time we rely on simple psychological mechanisms that can lead us astray. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, the Nobel-prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, talks to Nigel Warburton about biases in our reasoning.

Posted in Audio, Communication, Impact, Resources | Also tagged Behavioural Economics, Bias, Daniel Kahneman | 20 Comments

Money Degrades Our Ability to Empathize

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: November 8, 2012

New research finds that offering people money makes them less likely to correctly infer another person’s emotional state.

Posted in Impact, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate, News, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged 47%, behavioral science, Christine Ma-Kellams, economics, Empathy, Experiments, Finance, inequality, Jim Blascovich, pacific standard, Romney, Santa Barbara, Science of Ethics, social science, Tom Jacobs, UNiversity of California | 1 Comment

Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology

By Social Science Bites | Published: October 1, 2012

What can psychology tell us about morality? Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, discusses the place of rationality in our moral judgements in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.

Posted in Audio, Communication, Impact, Resources | Also tagged Jonathan Haidt, moral psychology, Politics | 7 Comments

Beyond the Randomised Controlled Trial

By David Canter | Published: August 20, 2012

The value of Randomised Controlled Trials in very specific contexts cannot be denied, but imperialist claims for its universal applicability and its use as a bench mark for all other studies needs to be challenged.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Randomised Controlled Trial, Randomised Trial, Randomized Trial, Research Methods, science, social science | 2 Comments

Made it!

By christianjarrett | Published: August 17, 2012

An uncanny number of psychology findings manage to scrape into statistical significance

Posted in Featured, International Debate, Research Ethics | Also tagged research, Research ethics | 1 Comment

After Aurora, Expect PTSD to Spread Far Beyond Theater

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: July 25, 2012

Two studies of Virginia Tech students provide information on the likelihood and treatment of stress-related psychological symptoms following a mass shooting.

Posted in International Debate, News | Also tagged Aurora, Colorado, Culture, intervention, pacific standard, PTSD, ptsd risk screening, ptsd symptoms, Shooting, social science, Therapy, Trauma, trauma symptoms | 1 Comment

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