Genre: Psychology

  • The Paradox of Power

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    What do you do when two or more countries, guided by all the technical advances of the 21st century, keep getting stronger, not separately, but concurrently ? US, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and even Singapore, have all added more strength to their offensive and defense equipment. One particular relationship…

  • The Blank State

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    What is more interesting than the human mind, Steven Pinker once asked. But this is also a question that has been asked in many different ways, with a variety of theories to describe it. There are those who believe that the mind is literally a “tabula rasa,” a blank state;…

  • The Better Angels Of Our Future

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    Dueling and slavery, according to John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University, have disappeared. Steven Pinker, a psychologist at Harvard University, isn’t making the same argument. Rather, he argues that based on previous historical epochs, human beings have actually become more and more peaceful and civil; even if…