Missives
One a month, to the Armchair Collective.
Keep track of what's happened since you were last here with the newsletters and the changelog.
October 16, 2020
Changelog
Updates to high traffic articles:
On the link between reading fiction, the development of empathy, and theory of mind.
October 10, 2020
Changelog
Article on how we choose our psychic predators and the ancient tension between natural law and social law.
Update to the article on Bandura’s famous bobo doll experiments, about how children model violence.
September 26, 2020
Changelog
New article on a societal design feature that keeps us from creating and maintaining communities.
More updates to popular articles—the evils of academic publishing and a short primer on memory.
September 20, 2020
Changelog
New article on the loneliness epidemic.
More updates to ranking search results—the psychology of needs and a primer on psychological theories.
September 13, 2020
Changelog
Updates to old articles that get a lot of traffic:
What our reasons for having sex tell us about sexuality
Gottman’s couple typology, and his rule for relatioship stability
September 10, 2020
Changelog
New article on folie à deux.
Large extension to Successful Prophets.
In response to questions and a general amazement that we don’t take this very seriously, a new project on protecting our digital selves started, with step one complete.
August 27, 2020
Changelog
New article on repressed memories. Follow up on therapeutic perspectives toward detailing traumas in response to reader questions. New article on the false narrative of teenage brain development.
Site is even thinner again. No more cover images anywhere. Vastly different styling on home and articles pages to eliminate clutter.
August 19, 2020
Changelog
New project article: successful prophets. A couple other new standalone articles too. All links in newsletter. Newsletter will now print articles in full, in response to feedback.
Moving to a lighter version of the site, which means getting rid of cover images. So much time spent finding images for articles just to adhere to convention. Why not try to be visually interesting in a less conventional way? So far, I like it. See what you think.