Michael Jackson and Human Nature
Sandra Sasvari — June 16, 2010 37 Comments
June 13th marked five years since Michael Jackson was acquitted on ten accounts of child molestation. Apart from family and fans, not many from the general public will pay much attention to this date. For most, it is just another day.
For some of us, though, it is our yearly reminder of a lot of things: of reflection, of redemption, of justice…but also of human nature, and the damage it can sometimes do when unleashed .
Psychology
The logic of collective punishment
Robert Shone — June 14, 2010 3 Comments
Is all collective punishment unjust? There are logical arguments for and against punishing people collectively in the cases of the BP oil-spill, the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound convoy, etc. Is it ever justified to punish people who are “innocent” of the wrongdoing?
Editor's Pick, Psychology
Richard Sennett on trade unions, life narratives, and our financial times
Matt Kennard — April 21, 2010 2 Comments
MK: Are you talking about the current crisis?
RS: Yeah. I think this is not just going to be a simple thing of throwing some money at things in a normal business cycle. It’s graver than that, and it’s your generation that will have to sort that out, I’ll be retired. The serious thing is what to do about this. The system can’t hold together
Editor's Pick, Politics, Psychology
Why is a market researcher like a racist?
Max Sydney Smith — March 31, 2010 0 Comments
Market researchers don’t make use of stereotypes; they create them, endlessly.
Psychology
Interview: Living with Trichotillomania, the urge to pull your hair out
Sofia Harris — February 22, 2010 2 Comments
I felt disgusting, ugly, and the worst part was that I blamed myself for my ugliness. That was probably what hurt the most – when a parent would say ”your eyebrows are so thin, have you pulled again?” and I’d become angry and say no, on the inside, I’d scream at myself because I knew it was the truth – and I felt like I was making myself uglier, when I could become more beautiful
Editor's Pick, Psychology
No, ex-Wall Street bankers will not carjack you
Zachary Goelman — January 12, 2010 2 Comments
MacDonald’s assertion is rooted in an supremely false assumption: she demands that if poverty and crime are correlated, they should automatically increase in equal and immediate proportion.
Editor's Pick, Psychology
An Unspoken Wound: How the UK gets it wrong for children affected by family separation
Karen Woodall — November 18, 2009 17 Comments
As London Law Firm Mischon de Reya release figures that show that 38% of children affected by divorce and separation never see their father again, Karen Woodall discusses the silence surrounding the issue of children and family separation and the opportunities ahead for positive change
Editor's Pick, Psychology
Curing Nepal through the power of Invincible Defense Technology
Dr. David Leffler — October 30, 2009 6 Comments
A Prevention Wing of the Military consisting of 3% of the armed forces of Nepal could achieve this goal. This special unit would be trained in Invincible Defence Technology and would collectively practice its ancient Vedic technologies of consciousness – the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs – in large groups, twice a day
Psychology
Could Peter Andre and Katie Price be our new family policy gurus?
Karen Woodall — September 25, 2009 5 Comments
Could Peter and Katie show the UK how to rebuild a business like relationship for the sake of their children. With celebs joining the ranks of policiticians and agony aunts advising government, the time has never been better for the two who have built a business out of making their private life public to put something back
Editor's Pick, Psychology
Progressive education comes to China
Arlene Chang — July 12, 2009 0 Comments
A new dawn in Chinese education
Editor's Pick, Psychology
The necessity of humanizing Hitler
Tom Oldfield — July 6, 2009 8 Comments
Hitler was pure evil, of that there is little doubt, but such an evaluation should be the start of a commentary and attempted understanding of his character, not simply a start and end point in itself. If he is dismissed as such, we are removing the need to chart back through history. We are bypassing the necessity to analyse and see why he came to embody such evil; why his anger was so entrenched by Versailles; why his views and propaganda were so successful; and how he came to be in a position to express European anti-Semitism so violently. In short, if we dehumanise, we are removing the burden to understand and comprehend, and in doing so, amplifying the possibility of it happening again.