Is True-Crime Therapy?
A question I can rely on being asked at any public talk I give is “Does your descriptions of how psychologists may help to solve…
Heard the One About a Politician Who Became a Friend on Facebook? New Political Communication
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, from comic to president. Pepsi and Coke fight over their share of the market not by major changes in their products but…
The Risks of Doing Research That Has Impact
The pragmatic desire to ensure that research, especially social science research, has ‘impact’, that is consequences for those outside the research community, is growing priority…
Environmental Sustainability Begins at Home
It is well established that climate change and environmental degradation are intensifying the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air…
Archive, Therefore I Am
What is the measure of a man? There are various emetics, but here’s one … Photo: David Canter) Having recently enjoyed voluntary severance from my…
How Young People Cope with Challenging Contexts
Tin-yuet Ting from Hong Kong interviewed those who took part in recent protests over democratic crises in Hong Kong.(Photo: Studio Incendo/Flickr/CC BY 2,0) It is…
When Is It Appropriate to Call a Crime ‘Terrorist’?
A crime or a terrorist act? Or both? The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) was quick to claim…
Political Activism is Not Just for Youngsters
The usual image of political activism is of young people, probably students, waving banners, or even throwing cobbles at serried ranks of law enforcement. But…
To Know a Society, Know Its Crime
Although most citizens in developed Western societies have relatively little direct contact with crime as victims and even fewer as offenders, criminality reaches out to…
Is Karl Marx Living at this Hour?
Karl Marx recognized that the polarization at the heart of inequality has its own self-enhancing momentum. There are no natural processes that reduce the division…