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April 2016

April 19, 2016

Duval vs Haidt: Moral Foundations Critiqued

[This post is a guest post from Alan Duval] Jonathan has kindly invited me to...

April 17, 2016

Moral Misgivings: A Response to My Earlier Self

Two months ago, I wrote a piece titled, "An Evolving View of Morality," in which...

April 02, 2016

Critical Thinking, Science, & Pseudoscience – Lack and Rousseau Nail It!

Caleb Lack is a good friend of mine. Indeed, I have published four of his...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Psychology of Religion: Religion – a Hell of a Lot of Fear and Depression (Redux)

I promised to dig out some ones about hell recently, as there have been some...

March 04, 2016

Study Calling Out Psychology Studies Is Itself Called Out!

You may remember recently that the world of academic psychology was called properly into question....

February 2016

February 21, 2016

The Psychological Need For Certainty = Goddidit

Psychologically speaking, humans really struggle with a lack of certainty, with ambiguity and the unknown....

February 08, 2016

Dr Caleb Lack, Director of Secular Therapy Project, Interviewed

Caleb Lack is a good friend of mine. I have edited and published a number...

November 2015

November 08, 2015

On non-religious children having greater altruism and empathy

Hitting the news today was research using data from around the word which showed that...

October 2015

October 09, 2015

Those who will not be convinced

I gave a talk last night to the Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub group on...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Evolution, language and the unconcsious: yup, free will again!

John D. Bargh is a psychologist with an interest in matters concerning free will. He...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

Consciousness has less control than believed, according to new theory

Consciousness -- the internal dialogue that seems to govern one's thoughts and actions -- is...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

My Godless Spellchecker interview on free will well received

I did an interview yesterday on the popular UK podcast Godless Spellchecker mainly on the...

May 13, 2015

Thoughts on motivation for voting

The general election is only just over, and I am sorry for being off my...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Caleb Lack’s new book on OCD out on Onus Books

Dr Caleb Lack has had three books published on my Onus Books imprint and I...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Left-wing people less likely to hurt others

A new piece of research has come out which looks to take the landmark Milgram...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Have Yourself a SINful Little Holiday Season!

Despite the fact that most scientific skeptics do not find themselves formerly associated with a...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

Just world theory and oven doors

Just World Theory is a core reason as to why theists believe in God. It...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

Moral Panics: Thoughts on Immigration

There are many posts presently here at SIN written, or in the pipeline, on our...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke (plus rebuttal)

Metaphysical thought processes are more deeply wired than hitherto suspected WHILE MILITANT ATHEISTS like Richard...

July 10, 2014

On theists believing ridiculous, unscientific things, and Terror Management Theory

Over at another post of mine, we have been discussing whether religion can and should...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

The racist and sexist roots of early psychology

When the scientific method is used badly, when preconceptions are allowed to dictate analyses and...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

The correlation of belief in free will and paranormal beliefs

This is really interesting, and whilst it doesn't prove anything particularly in and of itself,...

April 23, 2014

Psychology of Religion: Religion – a Hell of a Lot of Fear and Depression

This article is taken from the excellent podcast Reasonable Doubts which itself borrows from source material and...

April 21, 2014

On psychology as science, and straw men

Some fellow tippling philosophers and myself are having an email exchange about psychology. It started...

April 05, 2014

On Human Emotions

In reading Steven Pinker’s How the Mind Works, which has been a slow burner (both...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

“Psychology Gone Astray” – an excerpt from an upcoming Onus Books release

Dr Caleb W. Lack, purveyor of the fine opinions and science over at Great Plains...

January 2014

January 05, 2014

Quote of the Day by Ed Babinski

I am hoping to have Ed Babinski writing the foreword to Beyond an Absence of...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Explanatory scope of free will

So I have a question. I will detail the following research. For ‘free will’ to...

December 09, 2013

The Moral Life of Babies

Morality is not just something that people learn, argues Yale psychologist Paul Bloom: It is...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Post hoc rationalisation – reasoning our intuition and changing our minds

Post hoc rationalisation is what most of us end up doing when we reason. We...

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