[we] test the counter-intuitive possibility that moral outrage at third-party transgressions is sometimes a means of reducing guilt over one’s own moral failings and restoring a moral identity — Rothschild & Keefer, Motivation and Emotion free speechMoral psychologyPsychologyregressive left
Freely available from Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory — by Nick Haslam. bullyingconceptsMoral psychologyNick Haslampolitical correctnessprejudicePsychologySocial psychologytrauma
The new journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology has all its content freely available for download until December 31, 2011 A quarterly journal fostering interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences of the mind The only journal covering the main philosophical and theoretical trends in the field of cognitive science in a format…
Here is an uncorrected proof (do not cite) of my introduction to Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology. Further details will be made available just as soon as the publisher has updated the webpage for this book (according to Amazon the book will be made available on December 13th). A dedicated website to the volume can…
Today marks the first anniversary of the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary I posted earlier this year and a briefer one published on the UNE website. Raised along the mid-Maine coast he loved, he combined in his own personality the rugged solitude, beauty, and magnetism of that state: he was first…
The first of Nicholas Humphrey’s Pufendorf Lectures plugging his new book. Here is a recent review from the NYT.
Dan Lloyd has alerted me to this article of his published just today in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Aside from his academic work Dan, it should not be forgotten, is also a formidable novelist.
Last year I reported the death of my chum Rob Haskell. Here is an obituary from the latest issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior with which he was long associated. A Compassionate Scholar: A Tribute to Dr. Robert Eugene Haskell April 16, 1938 – July 17, 2010 Though no rigorous researcher would downplay…
Not a deep surprise but still nice to see some empirical work coming through. Check out this brief report just published online in Nature Neuroscience. The upshot: participants with larger amygdalas typically had more people in their social lives and maintained more complex relationships.
A thumbnail overview of consciousness by Alison Gopnik in Slate. alison gopnik
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