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Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature rewrites the story of early modern epistemology by examining the intervention of the ‘literary’ in a wider conversation about the process, ethics and psychology ... The essays in this volume

Olivia Goldhill, ‘Psychology will fail if it keeps using ancient words like “attention” and “memory”‘,. ... They’re saying… psychology is using words like memory and attention which are (i) old, and (ii) folky.

clever pun on the English word ‘Fie!’ This is, in short, the rude stuff — banned books; sexual psychology and physiology; books of nudes.

OK, I’m back. September: do your worst! One of my favourite things at the evolutionary end of Psychology is when the researchers look at some component of our mental lives, ... persuasiveness of the portraits of psychology we get there.

ii) MANIPULATING THE BIASES! I wrote a cheery account of reading Michael Lewis’s book about the psychology pioneers Kahneman and Tversky.

It is Idiots strutting towards their own built-in obsolescence, accompanied by the sound of a Canadian psychology professor falling down a flight of marble stairs, pitch-shifted into a

The art of greetings Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology […]. Nicolette Zeeman is lecturing on ‘The Hypocritical Figure’ from her forthcoming book on medieval allegory and

In an essay on ‘The Psychology of Punctuation’ published in 1948, E.L. ... iii] E. L. Thorndike, ‘The Psychology of Punctuation’, American Journal of Psychology, 61 (1948), 222-8, pp.

Ed Yong, ‘Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses’, The Atlantic, 19th Nov 2018:. ... It isn’t scornful in doing so, but it clearly thinks that the failure of 50% of these replications poses a severe challenge to the scientific

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

21 Apr 2022: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2014). She has also published other essays on Piers Plowman, Chaucer, medieval literary theory, song, psychology and allegory.

The art of greetings. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology of greetings with former diplomat Andy Scott.

Kennedy’s book examines such moments of recognition and invocation by reference to three clusters of imagery, drawing on the contemporary languages of literary criticism, psychology, physics and anthropology.

In this post and another I am going to gather a few thoughts about what it has been like trying to do experiments in collaboration with colleagues from psychology faculties. ... As far as I can tell, I have never mentioned a recent essay that definitely

clever pun on the English word ‘Fie!’ This is, in short, the rude stuff — banned books; sexual psychology and physiology; books of nudes.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts’ (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000069. David Kidd and Emanuele Castano, ‘Reading Literary Fiction and Theory of Mind: Three Preregistered Replications and ... David Kidd and Emanuele Castano,

2016)’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112 (2017), e5-e8.; doi: 10.1037/pspa0000079. ... proper psychology experiments (fascinating, mostly unsuccessful ones) involving literature …. … try something else NEW and rather BIGGER: I am

than practitioners within, say, experimental psychology can achieve, we can read carefully and as widely as is feasible (and we certainly do have a responsibility to do this, rather than getting ... Nevertheless, in psychology I think things move

An Attempt at Replication’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111 (2016), 46-64. ... piece listed above. It’s part of Psychology’s replication boom, which I have written about a bit here.

Nevertheless, in recent years, researchers in social psychology and related fields have been demonstrating the depth and ubiquity of these effects with such consistency and, sometimes, inherent drama that the whole ... A. Tesser and C. Leone,