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Democrats & Republicans Don’t Care Much About Each Other’s Physical Distress
Discover Magazine: As we descend into another election year, it would be nice if we could remember that people across the political divide are, er, people too. Unfortunately, that’s harder than it sounds, according to Visit Page
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Benefits of Bickering: Disunity and Ethics
I love reading accounts of the West Wing’s inner workings, because they are studies in the quirkiness of human psychology. Presidents and their trusted staffs always arrive in the White House with a unified message Visit Page
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Stephen Colbert, Scientific Pioneer
The Huffington Post: In my last post here, I explored what I called the science of “truthiness”: How we can come to understand the denial of science, on issues like global warming, by examining the Visit Page
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The Influence of Justifications on the Acceptance of the Use of Torture
I’m Robert D. Johnson from Arkansas State University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Visit Page
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Politics, Odors and Soap
The New York Times: Conservatives may not like liberals, but they seem to understand them. In contrast, many liberals find conservative voters not just wrong but also bewildering. One academic study asked 2,000 Americans to Visit Page
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Shivering Liberals, Parched Conservatives
The Huffington Post: Imagine you’re reading a newspaper and you come across an article about a woman lost in a nearby forest. She had hiked several miles to a small cabin for a bit of Visit Page
