The paranormal and the scientific method
There’s a fascinating story in the New York Times about a controversial paper about to appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper’s author is Daryl Bem, a respectable social psychologist famous enough to have made my [...]
David Marr's Quarterly Essay on Rudd and anger
David Marr’s Quarterly Essay, ‘Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd’, already highlighted in the weekend papers, will no doubt garner even more attention now that it’s been released. Indeed, Marr was on the 7.30 Report tonight being interviewed [...]
Emotion's role in decision-making
On the latest Saturday Salon thread tigtog linked to an extremely provocative article by Bob Ellis on The Drum, wherein he compared the moral equivalence of the War on Terror in Afghanistan with the activities of pedophile priests, suggesting that [...]
The most influential book you'll never read
The New York times has a short, but fascinating piece on the preparation of a revised version of of one of the world’s most influential documents – the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric [...]
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