If we want to avoid being at the behest of pathological leaders and their dysfunctional politics, we will need a citizen that has more knowledge of psychology: of both his or her own, and that of their leaders.
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The recent Pentagon documents leak, which partly demonstrates the degree to which more and more information is subject to classification, is yet another example of a world obsessed with increasingly minute degrees of control.
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When peoples’ basic needs are unmet, high emotional states, including anxiety, depression and aggression can set in, causing and exacerbating conflicts.
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Today, we live in a world in which left-brain thinking is the dominant mode. However, history shows that healthier, less polarized and more vibrant societies are otherwise.
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Can the metaphor of a properly functioning bicameral mind help diminish polarization and make politics and diplomacy more effective?
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Can our life experiences and their impact on our emotions and temperament, unbeknownst to us, affect our political outlook?
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Mutual needs satisfaction, based on a fundamental understanding of our innate needs and resources, is the means of achieving sustainable peace in politics
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In an excellent article in the New York Times, Christy Wampole, Associate Professor at Princeton University, explains how abstractions in politics can have deadly consequences.
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American Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt overturns our assumptions that our political beliefs are the result of logic and informed conscious choice.
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Ivan Tyrrell, a co-founder of The Conciliators Guild, explores some key questions in the overlap between psychology, politics and human nature.
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To get move beyond the problems of conditioning, brainwashing and indoctrination, it is necessary to also recognize the psychological factors that facilitate those processes.
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Human conditioning is “a learned association between two things which consequently affects one’s actions.” It plays an outsize role not just in our personal lives, but in political behaviour.
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