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November 2020

November 10, 2020

Does Belief in God Drive One’s Politics or Politics Drive One’s Belief in God?

Disclaimer: I, like many of you, am an agnostic-atheist and so the answer is neither....

January 2019

January 11, 2019

Psychology and Moral Philosophy: An Integration

Last night, I gave a talk to the Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub with fellow ATP...

January 02, 2019

The Map and the Terrain: Philosophy and Psychology

Everyone loves an analogy and I was thinking of this with regard to my upcoming...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

Valerie Tarico on the Psychology of (Political) Tribalism

Valerie Tarico is a psychologist whom I respect and whom I have shared book space...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Fraudulent Psychology? Stanford Prison Experiment and Others…

Experimental psychology has come in for a rough time in the last few years. Initially,...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Prosociality, Happiness, and Socially Desirable Responding

I just wanted to pick up on something that Johno mentioned in his piece, Christians,...

February 2018

February 15, 2018

Why Do This? What Motivates Me? An Analysis…

I recently posted about how an obsession with rationality, philosophy and politics can change you,...

February 13, 2018

The Loneliness of Philosophy

Here is a really interesting comment on my facebook page from a philosopher friend: For...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Study Disputes the Existence of the Backfire Effect

The Backfire Effect refers to a phenomenon where, upon being corrected regarding a piece of...

November 2017

November 18, 2017

Why the Atheist’s Obsession with God?

Hi recently received this question on Facebook from someone I used to work with: When...

September 2017

September 24, 2017

Discussions about Gender

I thought I would spark some discussion by presenting some videos and an article that...

September 04, 2017

The Updated Secular Therapy Project

Dr Caleb Lack is a friend of mine and all-round good bloke. Indeed, I edited...

July 2017

July 15, 2017

Atheists are less open-minded than religious people, study claims; Some doubts & Problems

Jonathan brought this article in the Independent to my attention. My commentary is going to...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

Fantastic Explanation of the Backfire Effect

I cannot post it here. Just go to this link. It's brilliant. H/T Neil Webber

April 2017

April 07, 2017

Brain Bugs, part two

Following on from Brain Bugs, part one two week ago. Image from I’m a Programmer...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Three Ways to Change Someone’s Mind

Since I've been posting on how not to engage with the other side recently, here's...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

Haidt’s Five Flavours as defined by Schwartz Values

In my previous post I suggested that it was Authority, and the exercising of Authority...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

Quote of the Day: Slograman on Emotional Arguments for Atheists

I previously posted about my recent experience with some Jehovah's Witnesses doing their doorstep thing,...

December 30, 2016

Conservatives Prefer Using More Nouns. Who Knew?

Some interesting research involving the US, Saudi Arabia and Poland has shown that social conservatives...

December 11, 2016

Holidays are coming, holidays are coming!!

November 2016

November 28, 2016

The Parable of the Down Syndrome Child

I would like to present a modern-day parable of sorts. Unlike most parables, this one...

November 02, 2016

Psychology Gone Astray: Racism and Sexism in Early Psychology

I was recently involved in another argument on facebook that concerned politics and religion and...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Duval on Moral Epistemology, pt. 3.1: Demographics of US Conservatism

Following on from my last post, and across the next three posts, I will discuss...

September 2016

September 05, 2016

Being an Expert = More Likely to Have False Memories

This is some interesting research that seems to indicate some bias involved in recounting events...

August 2016

August 06, 2016

Duval on Moral Epistemology, pt. 2: learning under parental supervision

In the previous installment, I detailed how a stimulus might pass through some or all...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

The Body Politic: Internal or International Politics?

As I have outlined in my writing on the psychology of morality, I broadly subscribe...

June 2016

June 11, 2016

My Comments on Moral Psychology as Operating in the EU Referendum

I would like to replay a facebook conversation with a conservative friend (as this is...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Duval vs. Haidt – Curious Correlations

I hope to have the next full instalment of my series up by next week,...

May 14, 2016

The Internal Logic of Human Morality – Duval’s Model of Moral Psychology

Duval & Schwartz – The Internal Logic of Human Morality: Picking up from where I...

May 05, 2016

Interview with Dr Caleb Lack

A few years back, I interviewed my friend and former SIN colleague, Dr Caleb Lack....

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