Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
How Does Putin Think?
David Canter considers the sorts of psychological processes that may be shaping Vladimir Putin’s actions.
The Robot Will See You Now
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.
Are Other People Hell?
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?
If Music Be…
My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the internet to […]
The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.
The Comfort of Strangers
David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.
When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss
David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.
Harnessing the Power of a Mob
David Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.
