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Did we, as intellectuals, perhaps unwittingly, play a role in preparing the ground for what is now called “Post-truth Culture”?
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Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.
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Winning essay written by Michael Poirier… Civilization and Its Discontents represents a continuation of Freud’s work in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, wherein he posited the existence of a death drive that opposes the drive toward life. In doing so, Freud firmly established himself as a dualist that saw life as a struggle between the life and […]
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Cambridge author Philip Yanos discusses World Mental Health Day and why raising awareness and encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help ultimately has little impact on stigma.
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Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova introduce their recent title, Teaching Computational Creativity.
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In contemporary western society, risky behavior by male adolescents is seen as maladaptive for the individual and a serious social problem. It may lead to injury or death, delinquent and/or illegal behavior, bullying, rape, STDs, substance abuse and, conflict with authority including parents and poor academic outcomes. “The prevailing conceptual framework for thinking about these […]
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Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive – becomes irresistible to women when he smells of AXE. This modern variation on the love potion illustrates the kind of fantasy of control […]
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In this follow-up to Part 1 of “That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It!” Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, author of How We Think and Learn , describes common misconceptions in school-age and college students and presents several teaching strategies that can help students revise their belief to be more consistent with scientifically supported explanations.
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