Let ‘Em Rot: Understanding Public Punitiveness and Forgiveness Toward Offenders …holding strongly punitive views and the other of strongly nonpunitive respondents) will be interviewed in depth in order to generate grounded hypotheses regarding the psychology behind these attitudes. Finally, these…
Alcohol: The Aggression Elixir? …biopsychosocial approach. Clinical Psychology Review 6: 621-649. Giancola, P., and S. Chermack. 1998. Construct validity of laboratory aggression paradigms: A response to Tedeschi and Quigley (1996). Aggression and Violent Behavior…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman …Random House: Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows …and Media Studies) Mediating Contentious Politics in Hybrid Regimes: Press Coverage of Political Protests in Uganda Marie-Grace Kagoyire Gasinzigwa (Universiteit Stellenbosch, Department of Psychology) Construction of Genocide Memories: Narratives of…
“Pluralism Is a Learned Value”: A Conversation with Dan Vallone …was via a cluster analysis. We asked respondents a large battery of survey questions that drew on findings from social psychology. For example, we leaned on the moral foundations theory…
“We’re in the Danger Zone”: A Conversation with Caroline Mehl …the theory that my co-founder Jon Haidt is well known for, which explores the psychology behind how we form our different worldviews. Moral foundations theory explains that we all have…
‘A Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation’: A Conversation with Daniel Stid …about things too narrowly and too rationally. So the first learning was: the problem of polarization is much more complicated and based in psychology and irrational impulses than we originally…
‘There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent about Democracy’: A Conversation with Robert Talisse …with whom we agree. One of the most solidly established findings of social psychology in the history of the discipline is that the more you surround yourself with people who…
The Czechoslovak Arms Industry and the Changing Face of Global Warfare, 1859–1989 …It combined Marxism with new literary and philosophical currents from East and West, from the experimental psychology of Sigmund Freud to the new philosophy of Martin Heidegger to the formless…
HFG Staff …James F. Bender Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmic Science at Columbia University. He researches the behavior, physiology, and anatomy of the human visual system and diseases…
