While it is fun watching the Keystone Kops get themselves out of their healthcare debacle, it is also our future. Luckily, psychology has some advice that might could help if they would only take it.
Category: Social Psychology
Confronting Rape Culture: Empathy & Defying Cultural Norms
It is clear that we live in a rape culture and that it will take a lot to change it. What does it take for individuals to make a difference? To stand up and speak out?
Gaslighting Perceptions of Politics
With the death of Roger Ailes, we are focused on the contributions of news to political polarization. Now we have liberal fake news to contend with. Here we examine the role of perception in our polarized politics.
Why Is It Easier for Dems to Bicker Than Oppose GOP?
Bickering Dems to the left of us! Bickering progressives to the right of us! Bickering leftists all around us! So, let’s focus that bickering on the GOP and the 2018 elections instead, hunh?
The Muslim Travel Ban: Understanding the Abuse of Innocents
CBP agents defying court orders. Citizens denied entry. Detainees denied medication. Why do these abuses happen? Milgram & Zimbardo explains why & how to resist the temptation.
Cleaning Up the Republican Mess in DC
The US Senate is broken. The US body politic is broken. Can they be fixed? Can we learn to compromise with the other side again? Our national civics lesson continues…
