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 […]
Can Social Science Save Lives in a Pandemic?
David Canter considers the emerging social science perspectives for controlling COVID-19
Emergencies: Why Do We Leave It So Late?
David Canter considers the social psychological processes that turn emergencies into disasters.
Don’t Tell Me ‘Don’t Panic …’
David Canter considers what panic really is and why its main cause is … telling people not to panic.
When Is a Terrorist Not a Terrorist?
David Canter revisits the problem of labeling too many violent acts as ‘terrorist’
The Polygraph as Propaganda
David Canter comments on the propaganda value of the British Government proposal to use ‘lie detectors’ with convicted terrorists.
The Politician in the Pocket
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.
Is True-Crime Therapy?
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.”
Heard the One About a Politician Who Became a Friend on Facebook? New Political Communication
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.
