Melisa Basol et al.
GAMIFIED INOCULATION BOOSTS CONFIDENCE AND COGNITIVE IMMUNITY AGAINST FAKE NEWS
(2020, SMA)
By warning and exposing people to severely weakened doses of attitudinal challenges, cognitive resistance or “mental antibodies” are generated against future persuasion attempts.
Julie Reshe
DEPRESSIVE REALISM
(2020, GA)
What if both my need to be happy and the demand of psychotherapy to heal depression are based on the same illusion?
Sven Hroar Klempe
THE GENEALOGY OF PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY
(2019, SMA)
Human beings as individuals from XVI century Christian Reformation and self-examination of true believer to XX century self-improvement culture.
Alain de Botton
The Importance of Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs
(2019, GA)
A simple and clear introduction to Maslow's famous hierarchy of human needs: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
Cody Delistraty
THE HAPPINESS RUSE
(2019, GA)
The dark side of relentless pursuit of happiness in contemporary Anglo-American psychology and culture.
Ralph Lewis
What actually is a belief? And why is it so hard to change?
(2018, GA)
Evolutionary explanation of the nature and function of our beliefs, with biological, psychological and cultural causes of its stability and strong resistance to change.
Arie Kruglanski
Our shared reality is fraying
(2018, GA)
What happens to a society without a sense of "shared reality" when even the mayor defenders of science see the truth as guiding ideal for an inquiry that can never be proven for certain?
Artur Nilsson
A Q-methodological study of personal worldviews
(2018, SP)
A critique of quantitative approaches to study of personal worldviews.
Farah Ibrahim, Jianna R. Heuer
WORLDVIEW: IMPLICATIONS FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE AND ETHICAL PRACTICE
(2016, SMA)
Cultural and social justice counseling for people with a different worldviews.
Tatjana Schnell
The Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe)
(2009, SP)
26 sources of meaning in life in modern Western societies.
Mark-Edward Koltko-Rivera
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WORLDVIEW
(2004, SMA)
In this comprehensive and influential article, Koltko-Rivera described worldview as "the most important construct that the typical psychologist has never heard of" and inspired systematic research on worldviews in social and personality psychology.
Dan P. McAdams
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LIFE STORIES
(2001, SMA)
Our personalities as biological traits (sketch), personal adaptations (details), and cultural stories (integration and meaning).
Kevin Lande
Do you compute?
(2019, SP)
Is the phrase "the brain is a computer" a literal truth, just a metaphor, scientific hypothesis or maybe something else?
Donald D. Hoffman
REALISM IS FALSE
(2020, SMA)
Ultimately, to solve the mind-body problem—how consciousness is related to the physical world—we're going to have to start with a theory of consciousness and show how the physical world arises.
Jeremy D. W. Clifton et al.
PRIMAL WORLD BELIEFS
(2018, SP)
26 simple and fundamental goal-oriented beliefs about the overall character of the world.
Ann Taves, Egil Asprem, Elliott Ihm
Psychology, Meaning Making and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion
(2018, SMA)
Detailed development of the naturalistic theory of worldview proposed earlier by Taves and Asprem.
Marta Lenartowicz et al.
THE HUMAN TAKEOVER: A CALL FOR A VENTURE INTO EXISTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY
(2018, SMA)
Can excessive social programming of humans be kept in check by putting AI as a buffer between us and global socio-econo-political system?
Alex Rosenberg
Humans Are Hardwired to Tell History in Stories. Neuroscience Tells Us Why We Get Them Wrong
(2018, SMA)
How evolution gave us the wrong ideas about how people think and how to use instead the same tools scientists use: models and theories we can quantify and test.
Buster Benson
COGNITIVE BIAS CHEAT SHEET
(2016, GA)
If you look at cognitive biases by the problem they’re trying to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they exist, how they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting mental errors) that they introduce.
Ian Gutierrez, Crystal Park
EMERGING ADULTHOOD, EVOLVING WORLDVIEWS: HOW LIFE EVENTS IMPACT COLLEGE STUDENTS' DEVELOPING BELIEF SYSTEMS
(2015, SMA)
Which life events shape young adults’ worldviews and how their beliefs are evolving?
Ara Norenzayan et al.
THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF PROSOCIAL RELIGIONS
(2014, SMA)
12 000 years ago: large scale, cooperative, anonymous societies appear, and at the same time prosocial religions begin to conquer the world.
Andy Clark
Natural born cyborgs
(2003, SMA)
How much our minds extend into our cultural environment, tools, and technologies?
Angela L. Duckworth et al.
Grit. Perseverance and Passion for Long Term Goals
(2007, SP)
Grit may be as essential as talent to high accomplishments.