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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.read more
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Born gay? The psychobiology of human sexual orientation
Qazi Rahman,Glenn D. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: Key areas for future research include the neurobiological basis of preferred sexual targets and correlates of female homosexuality, and a heritable component and putative gene loci on the X chromosome.
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The Nature of Science and the Role of Knowledge and Belief
TL;DR: In addition, modern developments in the philosophy and history of science have seriously undermined the radical empiricist's excessive confidence in scientific methods as mentioned in this paper, and science would less likely be taught as a ''rhetoric of conclusions''.
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Sociopolitical Diversity in Psychology: The Case for Pluralism
TL;DR: The importance of political diversity and the negative consequences of its absence are examined and strategies for increasing sociopolitical pluralism in psychology are provided.
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Education and Public Attitudes toward Science: Implications for the “Deficit Model” of Education and Support for Science and Technology
TL;DR: This article analyzed a series of nationwide surveys of public attitudes toward science conducted over a decade and found that respondents' levels of education and levels of scientific knowledge make independent contributions to public attitudes towards science.
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The false enforcement of unpopular norms.
TL;DR: The authors argue that people enforce unpopular norms to show that they have complied out of genuine conviction and not because of social pressure, and they use laboratory experiments to demonstrate this "false enforcement" in the context of a wine tasting and an academic text evaluation.