The Shared World: Perceptual Common Knowledge, Demonstrative Communication, and Social Space
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Are the ethnically tolerant free of discrimination, prejudice and political intolerance?
This in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Gee, who’d have thought it! The findings suggest that the ethnically tolerant can be discriminatory, prejudiced and politically intolerant against fellow humans. identity politicsliberalityregressive leftsocial identitysocial ontologySocial psychology
How to Get Beyond Our Tribal Politics
Jon Haidt and Ravi Iyer in the WSJ democracyJonathan HaidtLiberalismRavi IyerSocial psychology
Why Not Viewpoint Diversity?
Social psychologist Clay Routledge guest blogging in Scientific American. The tendency that Routledge points to is tone deaf to perfectly legitimate epistemic possibilities (meaningful viewpoint diversity) but we have long since pathologized ideology in a sad grab for power and influence (I have a chapter on this topic coming shortly). Surely the Overton window must be wide open…
Concept Creep: Psychology’s Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology
Freely available from Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory — by Nick Haslam. bullyingconceptsMoral psychologyNick Haslampolitical correctnessprejudicePsychologySocial psychologytrauma
Shakespeare: One of the First and Greatest Psychologists
Pinker in The Atlantic. (H/T to Shannon Selin) Worse still, we humans are the last to notice our own limited nature. In seven words, Shakespeare sums up a good portion of the findings of modern psychology: “most ignorant of what he’s most assured.” A recurring discovery of social and cognitive psychology is that human beings…
Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science
Here’s an interesting paper co-authored by Jonathan Haidt. Also, here is a good accompanying article in The New Yorker. The problem though with all the discussion is that the terms “conservative” and “liberal” and their supposed practical politics correlates “Republican” and “Democrat” are meaningless. When push comes to shove, self-ascribed or pejorative usage of these terms,…
