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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Mark Brandt: The Man Who Asked Who Else Is Prejudiced
On September 7, 2011, Tilburg University issued a press release. Diederik Stapel (b. 1966), professor of cognitive social psychology, dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, a star who published in Science and appeared on Dutch television, had … Continue reading
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John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
New Haven, the early 1990s. Graduate students in the humanities and social sciences earn stipends that qualify them for food assistance while they teach the discussion sections that keep Yale College running. A union drive is on. Organizers work the … Continue reading
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Strange Bedfellows in the Academy: Alliance Theory and the Straussian Schism
David Pinsof (b. 1986), David O. Sears (b. 1935), and Martie Haselton, in “Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems” (Psychological Inquiry, 2023), argue that political belief systems do not derive from abstract values. They derive from alliance … Continue reading
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Tournier on Desmond Ford
Paul Tournier built his psychology on a single observation. A person needs a place before he can become a person. In A Place for You he recalls a student who came to him and said he could not begin his … Continue reading
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The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
Every Saturday night for something like two thousand years, in Babylon and Cordoba and Vilna and Brooklyn, a Jew has lifted a cup of wine at nightfall, lit a braided candle, and recited a blessing to close the Sabbath: praised … Continue reading
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Tournier on Luke Ford
Paul Tournier wrote A Place for You from inside its subject. His father died when he was two months old, his mother when he was six, and the Swiss physician spent fifty years building a psychology whose first axiom is … Continue reading
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Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
Paul Tournier (1898-1986) took the title of A Place for You from the promise in John 14: I go to prepare a place for you. His argument runs that a person needs a place before he can become a person, … Continue reading
An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
Here’s a new paper, “Justifying Antisemitism: Political Liberalism and Perceptions of Prejudices.” The paper has pre-registration, three experiments, quota samples, open data, and a discussion section that reports the findings that cut against the paper’s news hook as prominently as … Continue reading
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Tournier on Cinema Paradiso and Desmond Ford
Paul Tournier (1898-1986) argued that a person needs a place before he can become a person, and that the place is granted, not achieved. In A Place for You he set out an order of operations he found running through … Continue reading
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The Self-Hating Jew
I rarely respect any truth claims within this epithet while I simultaneously respect the slur’s utility. “Self-hating Jew” is a loyalty-enforcement epithet doing the work every durable coalition needs done, and the tell is that every group has one. Blacks … Continue reading
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