
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).
Written by Rami Gabriel

essayPsychiatry and psychotherapy
Decolonising psychology
At times complicit in racism and oppression, psychology has also been a fertile ground for radical and liberatory thought
Rami Gabriel

essayNeuroscience
Myth and the mind
Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology
Rami Gabriel

essayHuman 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

ideaMedicine
Do psychotropic drugs enhance, or diminish, human agency?
Rami Gabriel

essaySelf-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?
Rami Gabriel