Social Science Space

My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the […]

David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.

David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.

David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.

David Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.

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?

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.