Tag: Psychology

Total Results: 43


Books didn't make Stalin a nicer person. Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty Images
21 Feb 2022 - 12:01am

The empathy of Joseph Stalin Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator

Boyd Tonkin

Monday, 7 February

07.02

The dangerous side of Munchausen’s Chronic illness influencers are faking it to make it

Stuart Ritchie

Wednesday, 24 November

24.11

Is the WHO inventing diseases? There's little evidence for 'internet gaming disorder'

Tom Chivers

Monday, 15 November

15.11

Pop psychology has killed the villain Profit is more important than the menace of evil

Dorian Lynskey

Thursday, 7 October

07.10

The dangers of the Nobel Prize Why was the inventor of lobotomies given science's highest honour?

Stuart Ritchie

Monday, 23 August

23.08

Do you believe in luck? Sometimes magical thinking gets magical results

Matthew Sweet

Saturday, 12 June

12.06

Why was Jo Cox murdered? The true extent of Thomas Mair's evil may never be known


Tuesday, 1 June

01.06

The science of bullshit Never believe an expert who thinks that 'confidence is everything'

Tom Chivers

Thursday, 27 May

27.05

You’re more biased than you think Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for studying errors — and still makes them

Stuart Ritchie

Thursday, 22 April

22.04

What makes us hate? A new book on prejudice dresses up common sense as scientific theory

Stuart Ritchie

Tuesday, 20 April

20.04

The empty promise of pop psychology A new book by Jesse Singal explains why self-esteem fads never work

Sarah Ditum

Friday, 5 February

05.02

The Government’s Covid comms failure The obsession with behavioural science is a classic case of over-promising and under-delivering

Stuart Ritchie