Essay/Neuroscience Freud the philosopher Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism David Livingstone Smith
Essay/Personality Indescribable you Can novelists or psychologists better capture the strange multitude of realities in every human self? Carlin Flora
Essay/Evolution Aliens in our midst The ctenophore’s brain suggests that, if evolution began again, intelligence would re-emerge because nature repeats itself Douglas Fox
Essay/Neuroscience Now you see it, now you… Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception Vebjørn Ekroll
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence How we learn to read another’s mind by looking into their eyes Tobias Grossmann
Essay/Neuroscience When is stress good for you? The subtle flows and toxic hits of stress get under the skin, making and breaking the body and brain over a lifetime Bruce McEwen
Essay/Social Psychology Microaggressions? Prejudice remains a huge social evil but evidence for harm caused by microaggression is incoherent, unscientific and weak Scott O Lilienfeld
Idea/Stories & Literature So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories? Andrea Askowitz
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one Alexandra Stein
Essay/Social Psychology The crisis of expertise Experts are either derided or held up as all-seeing gurus. Time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy Tom Nichols
Essay/Personality First impressions count A judgment of competence is made in a tenth of a second on the basis of facial features. Thus political decisions are made Alexander Todorov
Essay/Epidemiology Who names diseases? Swine Flu, Naples Soldier, Ebola. Disease names express fear, create stigma and distract attention. Can they be improved? Laura Spinney
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence Kate Fehlhaber
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Our world outsmarts us Social problems are fantastically complex, while human minds are severely under-engineered. Is democracy doomed? Robert Burton
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States What lurks beneath The grand drama of Freud’s ideas has obscured the reality: every school of psychology needs a theory of the unconscious Antonio Melechi
Essay/Stories & Literature Watchers of the earth Indigenous peoples around the world tell myths which contain warning signs for natural disasters. Scientists are now listening Carrie Arnold
Idea/Illness & Disease How a generation of consumptives defined 19th-century Romanticism Michael Barrett
Essay/Neuroscience Touched We ride a stream of naked neurons, stripped of their sheaths, to the most blissful moments and deepest intimacies of life Steven M Phelps
Essay/Human Rights What do slaveholders think? It is everywhere illegal yet slavery persists in many corners of the global economy. How do its beneficiaries justify it? Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick