(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Opponents of genetic determinism argue that it ignores the effects of colonialism. At either extreme of the nature vs. nurture debate, each proposes there are things in life we cannot control, ...

IN considering the life of man in history or in contemporary social relations there are two hypotheses open to us. We may postulate that, from the largest sweep of the historic process down to the ...

There is a lot of discussion about stereotypes in the media. On the one hand, many people believe that stereotypes provide a useful way of reasoning about a member of a group if you have no other ...

Reciprocal determinism shows how our thoughts, behaviors, and environments influence each other. Behavior is shaped by thoughts and the world around us, including the people we interact with daily.

Since applied behavior analysis is consider a science, ABA aligns itself with the attitudes of science which include determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, and philosophic ...

So many examples have been reported by readers over the years, that we have frequently banned the topic, only to rescind the ban when a particularly interesting example arrived. This, in turn, makes ...