Rami Gabriel
Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia College Chicago
Rami Gabriel is Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology (2023), and Why I Buy: Self, Taste, and Consumer Society in America (2013), as well as co-author with Stephen Asma of The Emotional Mind: Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition (2019).
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Decolonising psychology
At times complicit in racism and oppression, psychology has also been a fertile ground for radical and liberatory thought
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Neuroscience
Myth and the mind
Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology
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Human evolution
United by feelings
Universal emotions are the deep engine of human consciousness and the basis of our profound affinity with other animals
Stephen T Asma & Rami Gabriel
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Medicine
Do psychotropic drugs enhance, or diminish, human agency?
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Self-improvement
The self-help game
Millions believe that pop psychology can change their tennis skills, their love life or their moods. Are they all wrong?
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