The Psychology of Dictatorship

Pilots with Mental Health challenges need better options

Institutional madness of universities poses a long-term threat to the health of American society...and where America goes, the rest of the West follows.

Ahmadinejad made more people sympathetic to the Israeli cause. Without him, the opposition to Israeli policies has a more favorable face. Netanyahu has become the symbol of unreason for much of the world outside Israel and the USA.

Low faculty-student ratios for the rich kids, MOOCs for the poor kids: there is a new divide in higher education, with "trickle-down MOOCs." In the meantime, university administrations keep getting bigger and richer, driving up tuition.

Humans are social beings and tend to thrive in group activities. This includes learning with others, and many other activities including shopping and watching sports events.

Why omniculturalism should replace multiculturalism

The three lessons all 2014 graduates need to learn from President Putin

Graduation pushes higher education another year deeper into the crisis, and waiting for Godot is proving to be easier than waiting for the arrival of an 'Education President'.

Could the 'mild' stereotype of Canada hide deeper dangers?

Why is it so difficult for people to believe 'great works' can be produced by people from 'ordinary backgrounds'?

How Groupthink has led to our current lose-lose situation in Syria.

Revealed - The secret of rising tuition

In all kinds of countries, even in the harshest dictatorships, different types of national, regional, and local elections are being held to give the impression that a democracy has been established. But in so many cases, the result of this process to put into power elected pharaohs.

Philosophy

My Philosophy of Teaching

Fathali M. Moghaddam on June 15, 2013

Why teaching and research go hand in hand, and MOOCS can help transfer information but
not replace education

Why teaching and research go hand in hand, and MOOCS can help transfer information but
not replace education

Lone wolves and lone dictators have a lot in common.

Motivation

Kidnapping, Control, and Cleveland

Fathali M. Moghaddam on May 8, 2013

What deeper psychological motives lie behind kidnapping?

What deeper psychological motives lie behind kidnapping?

Kim Jong Eun as Psychologist

Should psychologists become more specialized?

The four solitudes that characterize psychology

How academic psychologists have become increasingly isolated.