Cardi B's latest song captures many of the findings of recent sex research (both ancient and modern). Why do people keep having to be told the same things over and over?
How do we respond to ethical issues raised by COVID-19? A utilitarian approach? An absolutist one? That split ignores our primary way of making moral sense of the world.
The ability to think socially is why this blog is written by a human, rather than by a virus. But we are not yet using our evolved abilities to their best advantage.
What is biological sex? Why are there such noisy and competing views on this? The simple answer is that the noisier the view, the less likely it is to be correct.
The kids of today are no dumber or more disrespectful than they've always been. A recent study explains why we keep thinking that the youth are getting worse.
Greta Thunberg inspires strong emotions—positive and negative. Part of this is the message she relays, but the message is not a new one. What is different this time?
Recent attention on the separation of children at the United States border is an opportunity to think about the long-term effects of parental deprivation on children.
A recent op-ed in the Washington Post called for open hatred of men. This seems like a good opportunity to explore some under-reported issues of intimate partner violence.
Paul Bloom has recently (and one suspects slightly provocatively) called for a rejection of empathy. But he has left us little grounds for his alternative "rational compassion."
Robert James King, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, in Ireland.
About Hive Mind
Thoughts from a beekeeper who also studies human behaviour. A beehive has roughly the same number of neurons as a human brain. However, the former has a noticeably greater chance than the latter of producing something sweet and nourishing.
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