This bell hooks interview is full of pleasures. You should read all of it. I found this passage particularly cheering: My militant commitment to feminism remains strong, and the main reason is that feminism has been the contemporary social movement that has most embraced self-interrogation....
Author: Katie Surrence
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I endorse every word of George Makari’s New York Times op-ed, written in response to reporting on a trial of integrated care for first-episode psychosis. Integrated care included.
Currently topping the leaderboard for whitest rich dude statement: “My dogs get mani-pedis; I don’t”. But it’s a competitive field— Pinboard (@Pinboard) November 12, 2015 Via Ben at Unfogged, Pinboard.
Scott already made this point in general terms, but I’ll pick a specific example of how racism has literally poisonous effects even after you control for SES. This paper is getting a little old now but it’s the best citation I could find: Also evident...
Ed Yong provides a useful corrective to some of the media reports about the new WHO classification of processed meats and red meats in the same carcinogenic risk category as.
I haven't written about theater here for a long time. Let me rectify that, especially since one of the shows I recently saw was obscure enough that you probably won't.
And today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Sadly, this post will be about the degree to which bisexual people are not celebrated in the United States. I first learned about the startling rates at which bisexual, pansexual, and fluid people experience violence from LGM commenter JL...
The Open Science Collaboration's attempt at replicating 100 findings from cognitive and social psychology is up, and the headline finding is that only 36% of them succeeded, using the criterion.
When I wrote about Inside Out I mentioned that I wasn't a fan of basic emotions theories, and felt a bit sniffy about Riley's limited repertoire. Now an approach I'm.
The Hoffman report on the APA's collusion with the DoD and CIA to enable psychologists' participation in torture has been released. I was particularly interested in the issue of motive: The association’s ethics director, Stephen Behnke, coordinated the group’s public policy statements on interrogations with...
When I was in grad school, a very pompous male guest speaker came to my mostly female lab and at one point decided, apropos of absolutely nothing, to launch into.
This post contains spoilers for Inside Out. Inside Out was charming and I cried and everything, but what is really sticking with me is what I found unsatisfying. Among the.