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Teasing Out Policy Insight From a Character Profile
The New York Times: He is a delusional narcissist who will fight until his last breath. Or an impulsive showman who will hop the next flight out of town when cornered. Or maybe he’s a Visit Page
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Mind Reading: How Our Brains Predispose Us to Believe in God
TIME: Psychologist Jesse Bering is best known for his often risqué (and sometimes NSFW) Bering in Mind blog for Scientific American, which examines human behavior — frequently of the sexual sort. But he’s also the Visit Page
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On Ash Wednesday, it’s good to feel the pain
The Los Angeles Times: Ash Wednesday marks a day of sacrifice and penance for Christians in order to atone for their sins. The theology of the idea coincides nicely with psychology. Feeling pain, it seems Visit Page
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Ash Wednesday Idea: Beat Guilt This Lent — Literally
Politics Daily: In an age when boosting self-esteem is seen as the answer to every problem, the idea of physically punishing oneself to expiate guilt is a notion that borders on the medieval. But just Visit Page
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Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh: The Guilt-Reducing Effect of Pain
Lent in the Christian tradition is a time of sacrifice and penance. It also is a period of purification and enlightenment. Pain purifies. It atones for sin and cleanses the soul. Or at least that’s Visit Page
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Faith in a Higher Power: The Study of Religion in Psychology
Azim Shariff Michael Inzlicht, University of Toronto, opened the “Toward a Cognitive Science of Religion: Insights From Personality and Social Psychology” symposium in a somewhat unorthodox fashion: “By show of hands, who in this room Visit Page
