The current condition of (Western) academic psychology can be criticized for various reasons. In the past years, many debates have been centered around the
As Dragon*Con approached, I gathered my thoughts and made notes for a panel about superstition. As you might imagine, while as a general skeptic I have some opinions about the matter, I found that I was having a hard time conjuring examples on the fly. Bother. Dragon*Con Superstition Pane...
It might be thought that such debates, while interesting, are purely academic and make little difference to the practice of well-being psychology. However, this would be a mistake. One’s choice of measures must be given adequate theoretical rationale, and different rationales can lead to differe...
Weeks goes on to make a useful distinction among personalist leaders between “bosses” and “strongmen” based on whether the audience or leader is civilian or military, respectively. For our pur-poses, this distinction does not prove dispositive because it speaks to issues of training and ...
Theoretical psychology including cognitive science research, epistemological issues and the future of psychology. We are also interested in discussions on methodologies and their replicability, debates in philosophical psychology, and research on ontological, epistemological, ethical, ...
Theoretical psychology including cognitive science research, epistemological issues and the future of psychology. We are also interested in discussions on methodologies and their replicability, debates in philosophical psychology, and research on ontological, epistemological, ethical, and critical issues in ps...
in From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (eds Sachs, K., Petrov, I. & Guerrero, P.) 6462 (Springer, 2010). Hardin, G. The tragedy of the commons. The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental ...
The cinema as a cultural institution has been studied by academic researchers in the arts and humanities. At present, cultural media studies are the home to the aesthetics and critical analysis of film, film history and other branches of film scholarship
psychologistsnormallyoperate, we have to face the unpalatable possibility that thewriggle roomfor researchers is – unacceptably large. Further, it is implicitly reinforced, as Coyne notes, by the actions of some journals as well as media outlets– and until that is adequately addressed, little ...
there are major issues with this approach. To start, for many of the supposedly retributive features, it’s not in fact obvious that they should only matter for people who punish from a retributive perspective. Instead, since features like the magnitude of harm or the offender’s level of in...