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Ironic that Chomsky’s strongest “criticism” of Foucault was that he was “totally amoral.” Every accusation is also a confession.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ironic that Chomsky’s strongest “criticism” of Foucault was that he was “totally amoral.” Every accusation is also a confession.
The annihilational (ego death) aspects of mystical experience don't predict well-being as strongly as the relational (connectedness) aspects
From Yaden & Newberg (2022)
From Yaden & Newberg (2022)
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The annihilational (ego death) aspects of mystical experience don't predict well-being as strongly as the relational (connectedness) aspects
From Yaden & Newberg (2022)
From Yaden & Newberg (2022)
Twitter is not working. What's new blue sky
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Twitter is not working. What's new blue sky
Kristján Kristjánsson is simply one of the best. Neophyte Aristotelians, take note.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Epiphanic versus incremental routes to moral growth
In this, the first of two Target Articles, written to launch the current Special Issue on Epiphanies and Moral Education, I explore the common dichotomy—represented historically by Plato and Aristo...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Kristján Kristjánsson is simply one of the best. Neophyte Aristotelians, take note.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm back! In this experiment we had 39 participants choose between 8 different PhD programs which varied in terms of region, application materials, prestige, and fees. Importantly, two of the programs had a GRE requirement and two were equivalent but did not:
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Christ didn't assume a lot of material accidents in the Incarnation
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Christ didn't assume a lot of material accidents in the Incarnation
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he didn’t assume an African or a Chinese body either — there’s no need to get trapped into bad mariology by a bad “metaphysics of gender”
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
he didn’t assume an African or a Chinese body either — there’s no need to get trapped into bad mariology by a bad “metaphysics of gender”
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Friends, 21st Century Church Father René Girard teaches us that mythology is merely the ritualization of murder and the narrative obfuscation of systemic violence. Joining me today is Jungian psychologist and dear friend Jordan Peterson, to explain why that's good.
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Friends, 21st Century Church Father René Girard teaches us that mythology is merely the ritualization of murder and the narrative obfuscation of systemic violence. Joining me today is Jungian psychologist and dear friend Jordan Peterson, to explain why that's good.
[The Last Psychiatrist voice]
You aren't in the DSM,
But the DSM is in You.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
You aren't in the DSM,
But the DSM is in You.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?
asteriskmag.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
[The Last Psychiatrist voice]
You aren't in the DSM,
But the DSM is in You.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
You aren't in the DSM,
But the DSM is in You.
asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...
An evidence-based guide to having a spiritual experience (from Yaden & Newberg, 2022)
* pray often
* don't seek one
* have a life circumstances that are either good, bad, or neutral
* pray often
* don't seek one
* have a life circumstances that are either good, bad, or neutral
October 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
An evidence-based guide to having a spiritual experience (from Yaden & Newberg, 2022)
* pray often
* don't seek one
* have a life circumstances that are either good, bad, or neutral
* pray often
* don't seek one
* have a life circumstances that are either good, bad, or neutral
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No significant effect for ketamine (vs midazolam) in this trial. This contrasts previous research. Functional unblinding and reduced expectancy effects due to the enrolment algorithm likely explain this finding (implying that older research is biased).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Serial Ketamine Infusions for Depression
This randomized clinical trial evaluates outcomes following adjunctive ketamine infusions vs midazolam for depression.
jamanetwork.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
No significant effect for ketamine (vs midazolam) in this trial. This contrasts previous research. Functional unblinding and reduced expectancy effects due to the enrolment algorithm likely explain this finding (implying that older research is biased).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Mr. Von Hildebrand I’m sorry I underestimated you
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Mr. Von Hildebrand I’m sorry I underestimated you
I have so many brilliant friends
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I have so many brilliant friends
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Entering my Woke Balthasarian era
a man with a beard and glasses is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a beard and glasses is making a funny face .
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September 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Entering my Woke Balthasarian era
This is the kind of content I'm going to (re)post on here. Time to be normal and learn things.
For NPR's Word of the Week: Things are getting spicy. We explain how a word referring to cinnamon and pepper turned less literal by the 19th century.
Love pumpkin spice lattes? Learn some of its spicy history
For NPR's Word of the Week: Things are getting spicy. We explain how a word referring to cinnamon and pepper turned less literal by the 19th century.
n.pr
September 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is the kind of content I'm going to (re)post on here. Time to be normal and learn things.
This is such absolutely essential reading for psychologists
media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/Gigerenzer%2...
media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/Gigerenzer%2...
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is such absolutely essential reading for psychologists
media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/Gigerenzer%2...
media.pluto.psy.uconn.edu/Gigerenzer%2...
September 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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A tale as old as time. Different methods of measuring the supposedly same construct simply...do not. I'll add that I think "subjective" and "objective" measures both tell us something meaningful, just about different things.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The association between subjective and objective cognitive functioning from a transdiagnostic perspective: An umbrella review and meta-analysis
The relationship between subjective (self-reported) and objective (performance-based) cognitive functioning has significant clinical implications acro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A tale as old as time. Different methods of measuring the supposedly same construct simply...do not. I'll add that I think "subjective" and "objective" measures both tell us something meaningful, just about different things.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Love that, in retirement, psychologist Steven C Hayes is just going scorched Earth on the eugenic tradition in psychiatry and psychology
youtu.be/tmlSgEzL8GQ?...
youtu.be/tmlSgEzL8GQ?...
Eugenics in Psych History - with Steven C. Hayes, PhD
YouTube video by Renegade Psych
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September 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Love that, in retirement, psychologist Steven C Hayes is just going scorched Earth on the eugenic tradition in psychiatry and psychology
youtu.be/tmlSgEzL8GQ?...
youtu.be/tmlSgEzL8GQ?...
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I commend him to God’s mercy. Even as I do not mourn him. I pray divine grace prevents us from yet more cruelty and violence, and that God help me resist lowering myself to hatred because Kirk was himself so hateful.
May Charlie Kirk rest in peace.
Yet, it is possible to note at the same time that another Horst Wessel or Albert Schlageter is bring created.
Yet, it is possible to note at the same time that another Horst Wessel or Albert Schlageter is bring created.
September 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I commend him to God’s mercy. Even as I do not mourn him. I pray divine grace prevents us from yet more cruelty and violence, and that God help me resist lowering myself to hatred because Kirk was himself so hateful.
(cross-posted from Tw*tt*r)
TIL that William James was desperate to track down a copy of Maurice Blondel's L'Action, evnetually writing to Blondel to ask for a copy. In 1907 Blondel shipped James his only (personal) copy of the then out-of-print book, which James read with pleasure (and confusion)
TIL that William James was desperate to track down a copy of Maurice Blondel's L'Action, evnetually writing to Blondel to ask for a copy. In 1907 Blondel shipped James his only (personal) copy of the then out-of-print book, which James read with pleasure (and confusion)
August 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
(cross-posted from Tw*tt*r)
TIL that William James was desperate to track down a copy of Maurice Blondel's L'Action, evnetually writing to Blondel to ask for a copy. In 1907 Blondel shipped James his only (personal) copy of the then out-of-print book, which James read with pleasure (and confusion)
TIL that William James was desperate to track down a copy of Maurice Blondel's L'Action, evnetually writing to Blondel to ask for a copy. In 1907 Blondel shipped James his only (personal) copy of the then out-of-print book, which James read with pleasure (and confusion)
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1. Our paper on suicides and levels of lithium in Switzerland is now online (open access). It is to our knowledge the first pre-registered study on this topic. We found a near perfect null-result.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 8, 2024 at 10:01 AM
1. Our paper on suicides and levels of lithium in Switzerland is now online (open access). It is to our knowledge the first pre-registered study on this topic. We found a near perfect null-result.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So many undergraduate intro to psychology/abnormal psych textbooks contain absolutely absurd falsehoods about "mental illness in the Middle Ages," including, but not limited to, the claim that the treatment of choice was torture
August 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
So many undergraduate intro to psychology/abnormal psych textbooks contain absolutely absurd falsehoods about "mental illness in the Middle Ages," including, but not limited to, the claim that the treatment of choice was torture
Normalize reporting descriptive statistics only
August 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Normalize reporting descriptive statistics only