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The Pathology of Boredom

9 February 2021 | by ubnric002 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, Public engagement

Artist, campaigner and facilitator of creative projects Dr Lizzie Burns writes about the effects of boredom and how to counter them.

The Chronic Time of the ‘Dress Rehearsal’

1 June 2020 | by ubnric002 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs

Shaul Bar-Haim explores how Coronavirus affects our experience of time.

Narratives of Apocalypse

30 April 2020 | by imagor01 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General

Naomi Richman explores the cultural history of apocalyptic thought and how it can guide us in imagining a better future.

A Faceless Crisis

9 April 2020 | by imagor01 | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General

Naomi Richman examines the language, metaphors and imagery that our minds attach to the ‘invisible enemy’ that is coronavirus.

States of Security: John Bowlby, Child Psychology, and National Security in the Cold War

28 March 2019 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General, Research

How did child psychologists contribute to the Cold War discourse of “National Security”? Carolyn Laubender discusses the relationship between John Bowlby’s attachment theory and larger political anxieties about the protections offered by the nation state.

Do Good Enough Mothers Make Good Enough Democracy?

8 March 2019 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, Events, General, Public engagement, Research

As Emma Smith’s Wunderblock opens at the Freud Museum London, we publish here one of the texts by the Hidden Persuaders team that informed the development of the exhibition.

Psychological Warfare and Cold War Science

1 November 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General, Research

We interview Audra Wolf about her new book, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science.

On Racial Judgment

21 September 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General

David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, on hidden assumptions about race in the policing and judgment of crime. 

Healing and Haunting at Kingston’s Prison for Women

8 August 2018 | by Marcia Holmes | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs

In this second essay of a two-part series, philosopher Lisa Guenther explores what a meaningful memorial might be for the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario – a former site of prisoner abuse and psychiatric experimentation on vulnerable women.

Rosser Reeves and the Death of Motivational Research

24 June 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General

Advertising executive Paul Feldwick reflects on the history of his profession’s entanglement with psychology and hidden persuasion.

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