Social Science Space

David Canter, a psychologist observing from the United Kingdom, struggles to explain how Trump got 70 million votes in the United states

Internationally renowned applied social researcher David Canter reviews the debate around the president’s personality.

The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement has been impressive and far too long in arriving. It is therefore a pity that discrimination against people of color should get confused with the unhelpful label of racism. David Canter describes how the notion of ‘race’ fans discrimination.

David Canter considers the emerging social science perspectives for controlling COVID-19

David Canter considers the social psychological processes that turn emergencies into disasters.

David Canter considers what panic really is and why its main cause is … telling people not to panic.

David Canter revisits the problem of labeling too many violent acts as ‘terrorist’

David Canter comments on the propaganda value of the British Government proposal to use ‘lie detectors’ with convicted terrorists.

David Canter reviews The Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics. Its crucial findings drawn from across studies in Europe, the Americas and South East Asia, is that in many places politicians benefit from the support of criminal organisations. In turn those organisations require the backing of politicians.

David Canter considers the possible impact on criminals of accounts of psychologists’ contributions to solving crime. “Typically, criminals do not have the intellectual abilities to study academic or true-crime to learn how to avoid detection.”

David Canter considers the impact of changing ways in which politics is communicated. In the age of the internet direct encouragement of what the audience is to feel, rather than detailed exposition of policy and achievements, is the order of the day.

David Canter considers the emotional and physical challenges of field research and the limits of conventional ethical approval.