We use religious cults as an example of extreme group psychology to make generalizations about the group dynamics that determine...

(01/07/2021) Joshua Sylvae practices and teaches Somatic Experiencing, an approach to trauma recovery based on a cross-species...

(12/27/2020) We continue to describe extreme aspects of group psychology, delving into the phenomena like death from social exclusion. We...

(12/06/2020) How scientific is science? In this episode, we further the argument that "science communication" about the ecological crisis...

(11/29/2020) Here, we try out a somewhat dreamlike new format. We will describe a problem in terms of the present day, but we will also...

(11/18/2020) We begin a series on evolved psychological mechanisms for group participation, evaluating the wild variation in behavior and...

(11/02/2020) In these difficult times, it is important to remember that no matter what we do, it should be entirely based on what the...

(11/02/2020) Movements for climate and ecological survival have largely eschewed talk of taking CO2 out of the sky. For good reason. We...

(10/21/2020) Start by reading climate plans, then write your own. Get a zoning map, change it in Photoshop, and release it to the media....

(10/05/ 2020) Elephants are changing. The various traumas of extermination—witnessing the deaths of their companions, developing in...

(09/27/2020) "Climate denial" has the specific connotation of outright denial such a thing exists, but what about all the other forms of...

(09/18/2020) Academic constructs, valid or otherwise, tend to diffuse into our culture at large. How has this impacted social and...

(08/26/2020) In this episode, we trace the journey of 20th century social sciences through innumerable versions of the nature vs. nurture...

(08/11/2020) Anthropology describes the observed range of human variation, as well as constants in human life. It therefore informs an...

(07/28/2020) What kind of societies are ultimately possible (i.e. within the range of variation our biology allows)? Why are social...

(07/15/2020) A CIA counterintelligence chief once described his world as a wilderness of mirrors. In this episode, we ask how ecological...

(07/01/2020) We've looked at some of the psychological traits that correlate with ideology, but what about those that don't? Considering...

(06/21/2020) Having described innate psychological tendencies associated with other political perspectives, in this interview we examine...

(06/13/2020) Having described the right-left spectrum in psychological terms, we will now examine the psychology of the liberal, an...

(05/27/2020) Having described the biology of aggression, we discuss the hypothesis that right-left political difference reflects...