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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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Written by Rami Gabriel

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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

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essayNeuroscience

Myth and the mind

Saturated with rites and symbols, psychology feeds a deep human need once nourished by mythology

Rami Gabriel

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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

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ideaMedicine

Do psychotropic drugs enhance, or diminish, human agency?

Rami Gabriel

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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