Since I found out that the Standard Prison Experiment is not all it’s cracked up to be I’ve been starting to wonder if the field of Experimental Psychology itself might have a problem when it comes to generating meaningful insights. We’ve all heard about the replication crisis by now but…

In my sophomore year of university I recall hanging out at the uni’s radio club for lunch one time. The topic of evolutionary psychology came up and I found myself defending evopsych against a couple of people who had beef with it. One girl, a biomed student, got quite flustered…

Something has been bothering me lately. It seems that as far as many journalists, government officials, and common netizens are concerned, you’re allowed to make a heap of noise about something and disrupt society so long as you happen to be correct in your underlying beliefs. Black Lives Matter protests…

I haven’t posted a blog post in a while so I’m adhering to my own policy of ‘when you can’t find the motivation to do something, lower your standards’ for the sake of getting the ball rolling again. …

in 1971, Stanford University’s Philip Zimbardo ran an experiment to see whether the volatile dynamics between prison inmates and their guards were due to the psycho-social circumstances of prisons, or due to the individual dispositions of those within. The experiment was advertised as a ‘psychological study of prison life.’, …

I cannot get my head around how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) can justify a takeover of Taiwan. There’s a lot you can read about whether Taiwan belongs to the CCP or not given its tumultuous history and occupation by Japan. I’m of the opinion that between the PRC…

Epistemic Status: not an economist, probably missing something important. If you don’t read the whole way through, just assume that I hate the poor and I’m satan himself. The coronavirus, still in its infancy, has already managed to bring up uncomfortable ethical questions across a range of domains. When we…

Several times in the last week I’ve had a conversation where I’ve only realised the true motivations between both parties after the conversation ended. It started with a conversation around religions and cults. It went something like this (heavily modified due to poor recollection ability): Friend: … or a cult…

I’ve just finished reading Douglas Adam’s hilarious sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and I enjoyed it for two main reasons. One, it is seriously funny. I didn’t know it was possible for a book to make me laugh out loud. …