Category Archives: Psychology

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 →

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 →

The boy was out after curfew. He had turned his sweater inside out to hide the yellow star, and he kept to the walls. A man in the black uniform of the SS waved him over. The boy went. There … Continue reading →

The dogs would not jump. In a basement laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, in the rooms where Richard L. Solomon (1918-1995) ran his experiments on learning, a dog stood in a two-sided chamber called a shuttle box … Continue reading →

The desks in Mrs. Wilson’s sixth-grade classroom sit in ranked order. Row one, seat one belongs to Carol Dweck (b. 1946). She holds it the way the whole class holds its place, by IQ score and by fear of losing … Continue reading →

Scranton ran on anthracite, and by the early 1940s the coal was running out. The mines closed one after another. Money left the valley. On July 11, 1943, in this fading Pennsylvania city, Howard Gardner (b. 1943) was born to … Continue reading →

Littlefield sits on the High Plains of West Texas, cotton and cattle country, flat to every horizon. A man’s word arrives in such a place before he does, and a slight left unanswered follows him the rest of his life. … Continue reading →

Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25, 1927 to January 17, 1987) was an American developmental psychologist whose theory of moral development reshaped the study of ethics, psychology, education, and the growth of the human mind. He argued that moral judgment develops through … Continue reading →

Three psychologists write in The New York Times: As a general rule, though, it turns out that ordering people back to the office full time is a power and status move. It’s a signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic … Continue reading →