During the 2004 US presidential election, Drew Westen wired up people to MRIs while they were processing information about George Bush or John Kerry. The participants—half Republicans and half Democrats—were exposed to contradictory statements from the...
Edward Bernays knew something about manipulating the masses. The ideas of his uncle Freud helped him gain an understanding of group psychology. He put this knowledge at the service of companies or politicians to control and manipulate the masses. ...
Our inner world is a very complex universe. The probability to know ourselves in totality is very low. Is it even possible to know ourselves in part? Why is that matter? What do we expect to find inside us? And by which means we can walk...
Before tackling Islamic psychology, the first step is to dispel confusion. When it comes to the distinct features of our being, what I found confusing at first was the Arabic words, their meanings, and their English translations. Ruh can mean soul or...
Younger, I was as ignorant about negative emotions as someone could be. Without exaggeration, I would give myself a zero in emotional literacy. I was considering the negative emotions as the enemy to suppress. And, of course, I failed to suppress them...
Blindness is unavoidable. There are so many things that we don’t know and it’s impossible to know all of them. When we navigate a complex world with partial knowledge, blindness is unavoidable. But some forms of blindness can be more...
