The Social Psychology Of Presidential Election Polls, Part 2 Of 2
If I asked you to call 1,000 people today and screen each person for 1 minute in the hopes that 500 of them would agree to participate in an upcoming survey, you could not do it. If you spent 60...
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Online Trolling, Part 1 Of 3
Psychology studies the individual, and sociology studies the group. Social psychology studies the relation between the individual and the group, and for me that’s where all the action is. I study...
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Online Trolling, Part 2 Of 3
In the spring, the alpha wolf sits high on a ledge looking out over the young wolf pups as they play and get socialized by the older wolves. When an older wolf humiliates a young wolf pup, the...
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Online Trolling, Part 3 Of 3
Thanks to Padre for pointing out that there can only be a Dark Triad of sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism because a tetrad implies four.* * * * * read more
View ArticlePerception: The Forgotten Psychology Of Holographic Universe Simulations 1/2
Imagine that there is a discovery by one of us humans allowing the full-blown creation of holographic simulations in which whole lives are born, live, and die – but all without self-awareness. They...
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Over-Controlled Disasters 1/3
The recent appearance of Hurricane Matthew prompted some harsh memories of hurricanes past. I went through Hurricane Andrew. I was living in Ft. Lauderdale with my youngest daughter, Lydia, and I will...
View ArticleNormative Order & The Social Psychology Of Successful Degradation Ceremonies
In the mid-twentieth century, a social psychologist by the name of Harold Garfinkle (1965) wrote an article titled “Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies.” This became one of those articles –...
View ArticleOn The Distinct Possibility Of Being Slightly Autistic Part 1
Psychology studies the individual, and sociology studies the group. Social psychology studies the relation between the individual and the group, and for me that’s where all the action is. I study...
View ArticleOn The Distinct Possibility Of Being Slightly Autistic Part 2
Enter the concept of slight autism. We can define slight autism as a state of autistic perception that is noticeably but not diagnosably autistic. Here is how we can begin to explain it and understand...
View ArticleDemocrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along Part 1
When a tree dies, or when we run across decaying wood in a forest, our first reaction is to think we should remove it. However, the ecology of the forest is such that saproxylic organisms, including...
View ArticleDemocrat Postmortem: They Had Merely Become What They Had Hated All Along 2/2
If there was one theme that qualified the new politically correct definition of morality in higher education it was the idea that the new Affirmative Action professoriate wanted to do away with...
View ArticleTrump’s Cuban Insight Trumps Fidel Kaepernick’s Caper Part 1
In America we have the right to protest, so when Kaepernick started his protest by refusing to honor the flag and the national anthem during NFL pre-game ceremonies a lot of people thought it was...
View ArticleTrump’s Cuban Insight Trumps Fidel Kaepernick’s Caper Part 2
In the first installment of this two-part post, I mentioned that from my perspective I had understood Kaepernick had a right to protest as an American, but all of that sentiment had changed through a...
View ArticleWhen Prophecy Fails: Analyzing Post-Election, Post-American Grief
One of the many classics in social psychology from the mid-20th century was Leon Festinger’s When Prophecy Fails (1956). The point of the study was to infiltrate a doomsday cult. It was a cult whose...
View ArticleThe Social Psychology Of Morality: Live And Let Die
There is no correct moral theory. All morality is politics. People do not act on the basis of morality. Everybody does everything they do for the most meaningful reason at the time. If an act may be...
View ArticleThe Art Of Great Writing
I was not supposed to start this piece using the pronoun ‘I’. read more
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