With Halloween right around the corner, spirits, ghost, and other spirits of the dead may be on the mind. As a child, Halloween was always my favorite holiday, and it continues to remain so in my adult years. Autumn, in general, is a whimsical time of year, and when the colors of the leaves and […]
At first glance, psychology and politics may not appear to have much in common, but look a little deeper, and one finds an interesting world of intersections and commonalities. Indeed, politics, policy decisions, and political ideology have roots in how people think, the way we view the world, and that’s where psychology enters in. And […]
Biological determinists argue that what you are born with is what you get. Sure, genetics don’t determine everything about your nature, but there is basically no escaping the traits that your parents passed down to you, or so the biological determinist would say. This type of thinking has had various names throughout the years—“essentialism,” “determinism,” to […]
How Reliable Are Your Memories? The Problem of False Memories We often think of our memories as fixed: memories remain concrete and unchanging, at least that’s how we tend to think of them. But what if someone told you that what you remember may not be an accurate reconstruction of the past? Worse, what is […]