Pictured: a human whose dignity is highly questionable Said Michele Bachmann to members of Personhood USA on Tuesday night: I […]
ethics, politics, psychology
Spokesgroups
Radley Balko got quite a lot of hate mail in response to an article he wrote for HuffPo on Occupy […]
bias, evolution, morality, politics, psychology
Biased ! = wrong
Let me say this, right from the start: I love biases. No, I don’t love that they exist, but I […]
politics, psychology
Spokespeople
Not allowed to be right aboutanything. After posting a clip from Bill Maher’s show in which the comedian mocks the […]
morality, politics, psychology
The phenomenon of the petty tyrant
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business decided to examine the relationship between status and power in how people […]
cognition, death penalty, morality, psychology, relationships, sexuality
Some random musings on “forever”
When I lived in Denmark, a friend told me that no one there receives a prison sentence longer than fourteen […]
bias, cognition, creationism, evolution, freedom of speech, intellectual honesty, libertarianism, morality, politics, psychology
Who do you admire?
At The Daily Dish, Conor Friedersdorf contemplates the results of a recent Gallup poll asking Americans which men and women […]
empathy, politics, psychology
The trickiness of characterizing empathy in politics, part 1
So as mentioned, I’m working my way through Frans de Waal’s book The Age of Empathy. On my drive I […]