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  • An Analysis of Gordon W. Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice
    Alexander O’Connor
    With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a major impact not only in universities, but also on government policy. The question that Allport tackled was an old one: why are people so disposed to prejudice against those from other...
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  • An Analysis of Leon Festinger’s A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
    Alexander O’Connor / Camille Morvan
    Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology - one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time. It is also a prime example of how creative thinking and problem solving skills can come together to produce work that changes the way people look at questions for good. Strong creative thinkers...
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  • An Analysis of Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    Alexander O’ Connor / Dario Krpan
    An instant bestseller, Sacks’s 1985 book argues that, by connecting with their patients and pay attention to their stories, doctors can provide significantly more effective care. ...
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  • An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect
    Alexander O’Connor
    What makes good people capable of committing bad - even evil - acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment - which asked two groups of students to assume the roles of prisoners and guards in a makeshift jail, to dramatic effect - but also an...
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  • An Analysis of Alan D. Baddeley and Graham Hitch’s Working Memory
    Alexander O’Connor / Birgit Koopmann-Holm
    The work of memory researchers Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch is a prime example of the ways in which good critical thinkers approach questions and the problems they raise. In the 1960s, researchers into human memory began to understand memory as comprising not one, but two systems. The first was a short-term system handling information for mere seconds. The second was a long-t...
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