New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on political attitudes, reliability of memory, and religious cognition. More
A sample of articles on political attitudes, reliability of memory, and religious cognition. More
A sample of research on moral obligations and family, how people view God in times of conflict, and sex differences in perceptions of sexual interest. More
A sample of research on delay of gratification in children, the link between religiosity and violent crime, self-objectification and women’s social activism, and how object design can afford learning. More
Science and religion seem to be getting ever more tribal in their mutual recriminations, at least among hard-line advocates. While fundamentalist faiths cast science as a misguided or even malicious source of information, polemicizing scientists argue that religion isn’t just wrong or meaningless but also dangerous. I am no apologist More
Sarah Gaither shares how her experiences as a biracial individual have informed her psychological research on identity.
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Thomas Alva Edison famously opined that genius is “one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Though the inventor and businessman fell short of self-identifying as an atheist, he also asserted, in a 1910 New York Times Magazine interview, that “Nature did it all—not the gods of the religions.” New research suggests More