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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
The New York Times: In the film version of “All the President’s Men,” when Robert Redford, playing the journalist Bob Woodward, is struggling to unravel the Watergate conspiracy, an anonymous source advises him to “follow
