Social psychology

Fighting women’s leftward political march

Joanna Gray writes for the Daily Sceptic about challenging a current political trend among women. What have Little Red Riding Hood, Jane Austen’s Emma and prison reformer Elizabeth Fry got…

COVID lockdowns had negative impact on personalities

Joshua Slocum writes for the Federalist about a long-term negative impact from the COVID lockdowns. A new analysis of personality surveys is putting the weight of data behind some things…

Many Won’t Accept a Post-Pandemic ‘Normal’

Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about disturbing new survey results. Gallup’s pollsters published a troubling discovery on Tuesday in a survey asking American adults how they were coping…

Tyranny and the Weaponization of Loneliness

Stella Morabito writes for the Federalist about the ties between tyranny and loneliness. Revolutionary elites who push utopias are always a small minority. In order to get all of society…

No, Covid didn’t make them do it

"Believing Covid shuts down businesses, closes schools, causes substance abuse, requires emergency orders, and so forth requires the unstated presumption that individuals are not the ones choosing to shut businesses,…

Health experts and manipulation of society

Nathanael Blake of the Federalist argues that health experts need to get out of the business of manipulating society. Noble lies often come to ignoble ends. Consider the current pandemic,…

Conservative happiness, generosity, and purposefulness

Glenn Stanton writes for the Federalist about good news for conservatives. Who’s happier, finds more meaning in life, and is more generous to the poor — liberals or conservatives? Liberals,…

You don’t need to be right, just self righteous

How can we increase societal happiness?

I recently wrote a column for the Carolina Journal, where I looked at some data trends regarding mental health issues among our nation’s youngest generations. In sum, our youngest generations…

Liberals, empathy, and ‘white privilege’

Zaid Jilani writes for National Review Online about an unintended consequence of focusing on “white privilege.” [A] recent paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General suggests that the…

Leef highlights psychology professors’ campaign against groupthink

George Leef’s latest Martin Center column focuses on a new book that tallies damage linked to groupthink in the academy. Does social science research and understanding suffer because most of…

Make Mine a Thirty-Story Flamingo

And so, if your city fathers have not taken social psychology, they could well fall for the old routine of making outrageous demands in the hopes they’ll settle for a…