The Case for Handgun Waiting Periods
A mandatory waiting period before buying a handgun actually enjoys widespread support. What’s more, behavioral science backs it up too.
A mandatory waiting period before buying a handgun actually enjoys widespread support. What’s more, behavioral science backs it up too.
Five articles for your reading pleasure, on topics including the banality of the phrase banality of evil, why office snacks are an issue, how to quantify awe, and more.
Chimpanzees who injure or kill one another are not immoral. Their violence is simply a means to reach an end.
Parents and policy makers are often inundated with frightening claims about media and technology’s effects on kids. Is there any truth to these claims? Or have some scholars and journalists jumped the shark?
“A sick, demented man.” That was Donald Trump’s assessment of Stephen Paddock, who shot nearly 600 people, leaving 58 dead, during a concert in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Betsy Levy Paluck, a psychologist at Princeton University, was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
At some point in their lifetime, 10 to 35 percent of people experience intimate partner violence. Why is violence such a pervasive feature of human relationships?
To understand why one person would actively desire to inflict suffering upon another, we have to look to a counterintuitive source: human morality.