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

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.

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,

26th June. In June 1923 he was thinking about relationships. In a letter to his friend Sebastian Sprott he doubted that psychology could give much insight into his unhappiness, even though ... your psychology is of course better than other people’s’

in Lisa Zunshine’s up-to-date and helpful collection, Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies.[5] New studies appear regularly referencing empirical cognitive research at the levels of neurology, psychology and ... The new scientists, after all,

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.

psychology and philosophy wondering about what it might mean to say we can think ‘as as we’. ... byJ.L. Tracy, C.M. Steckler, and G. Heltzel, ‘The Physiological Basis of Psychological Disgust and Moral Judgments’, Journal of Personality and

pathologies or obsessions related to paper. psychologies of book collecting. bibliophilia and bibliophobia.

Well, no, it’s Michael Tye’s book about animal psychology, with its cool title. ... Ed Yong’s article in The Atlantic highlights the problem that research in psychology, and in other fields as well, is predominantly practised on people from WEIRD