Barry Schwartz: The Idea that Shaped My Career
The “finding” from outside psychology that most influenced me—indeed it essentially shaped my entire career—was not so much a “finding” as an argument.
Psychology
Don’t Touch the Computer
Can humans and computers work together, or should we simply bow down to the algorithms?
A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell: Revisiting Brown v. Board
Was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board based too much on the psychological harm that segregation caused and not enough on the structural inequality that continues to this day?
The Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control
Reasoning, problem-solving, symbolic language, planning—these faculties are fundamental to virtually all of our individual and societal accomplishments.
What Does It Mean to Be a Patriot?
Imagine you got up one morning and went through your normal routine—as you crack open the newspaper, you are met with an alarming headline: The Statue of Liberty Has Been Attacked.
All the (Pseudo)Science That’s Fit to Print
“Behind the ears, and directly above the Mastoid Process, is located a brain organ by the name of Vitativeness.”