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Some of the Turpin children are playing the guitar to heal
Police say they lived in squalor for years, malnourished and deprived of contact with the outside world. Their parents are accused of torturing them. Now on the road to recovery, David and Louise Turpin’s seven
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AAAS Honors Psychological Scientist for Fight Against Torture
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded its 2015 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award to psychological scientist Jean Maria Arrigo, who publicly challenged the American Psychological Association’s efforts to allow and
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Trying to Cure Depression, but Inspiring Torture
The New Yorker: In May, 2002, Martin Seligman, the Director of the Positive Psychology Center, at the University of Pennsylvania, was giving a lecture at the San Diego Naval Base. It had been sponsored by
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The Science of Interrogation: Rapport, Not Torture
Chris Matthews, who hosts the MSNBC news program Hardball, is convinced that torture works. In the last two days, in the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s damning report on CIA interrogation practices, he has
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Punishment without spanking
CNN: Noël Plummer can’t imagine making a conscious decision to inflict physical pain on her 8-year-old daughter as a punishment. She’s only slapped her daughter once, without thinking, when her then-5-year-old was having an enormous
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Mind Reading: Steven Pinker’s Case for Why the World Is Heading Toward Peace
TIME: Amidst the headlines tallying the damage wrought by persistent economic decline, cataclysmic climate change and unbending political stalemate — among other things — Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker brings good news. In his new
