Posts Under ‘cultural cognition’ Category

Why Ari Fleischer Can't Count Properly (When Tweeting About President Obama)

Lots of people are amused by this tweet from former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer: Question to @gov: how come @BarackObama ‘s last tweet was more than 140 characters? Does he play by different rules??? — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 24, 2013 Many are chortling that Fleischer has a math deficiency. Actually, I think the recent…Continue Reading…

The Anguished Lament of a Science-Minded Liberal

On Twitter, some smart people I follow alerted me to a post titled, “2012: The year crazy and stupid went mainstream.” It’s by a writer named Bernie Mooney who defines himself as a “progressive contrarian.” Here’s how he begins his post: I’ve always been of the mind that stupid should hurt, so 2012 was a hard…Continue Reading…

How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation

Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on guns and violence has had a depressing, unchanging quality. Here’s President Obama two years ago: You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations –-…Continue Reading…