Psychology of Belief (the videos)
I was interviewed this past week by Seth “The Thinking Atheist” Andrews, who was interested in talking about what psychology has to say about belief. Specifically, we talked about intelligence and...
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Intelligence & Religion (part 3) – Religious Beliefs among Scientists
This is the third installment of my five part series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. These were inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in,...
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Intelligence & Religion (part 4) – Religious Beliefs & Level of Intelligence
This is the fourth installment of my five part series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. These were inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in,...
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Intelligence & Religions (part 5) – Summary & Future Directions
This is the fifth and final installment of my series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. These were inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in,...
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Breakfast with a Psychic
On campus (thanks to my advising of the UCO Skeptics) I am known as the resident skeptic of the paranormal/alt-med/psi/all things kooky. This means that I get funneled quite a few folks with, shall we...
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New Interview featuring GPS and A Tippling Philsopher
Below is my latest interview, conducted excellently by Jonathan MS Pearce of the Skeptic Ink blog A Tippling Philosopher. In this wide-ranging chinwag (an English term that I just learned), we discuss...
View ArticleCritical Thinking Skills (and how to use them)
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2013 Skeptics of Oz conference in Wichita, Kansas. Below is the video of my talk there, which was designed as an introduction to critical thinking...
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Zodiac APOCALYPSE!!!
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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“The Psychology of Belief” podcast on The Thinking Atheist
This past week I was the “special guest” on Seth Andrew’s radio show/podcast The Thinking Atheist. I had an excellent time discussing many aspects of belief and what drives and maintains it with him...
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Doing Science on Skeptics
A few weeks ago I mentioned a talk I would be giving about some of our recent research trying to find sort of psychological differences there are between scientific skeptics and believers in the...
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Personality & Mental Health in Paranormal Believers
Recently, I was asked to give a talk to the University of Oklahoma Secular Sooners, the Student Secular Alliance at OU. So, on National Forethought Day 2015, I moseyed down to Norman and gave a talk...
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GPS Reviews…”Everybody is Wrong about God” by James A. Lindsay
This is part of an ongoing series of reviews here at GPS. These will be (to the best of my ability) spoiler-free, so as not to ruin the fiction ones I do, as well as relatively brief. If you’re...
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Intelligence & Religion (part 4) – Religious Beliefs & Level of Intelligence
This is the fourth installment of my five part series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. These were inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in,...
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Intelligence & Religions (part 5) – Summary & Future Directions
This is the fifth and final installment of my series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and religion. These were inspired by questions about and challenges to a video I was in,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breakfast with a Psychic
On campus (thanks to my advising of the UCO Skeptics) I am known as the resident skeptic of the paranormal/alt-med/psi/all things kooky. This means that I get funneled quite a few folks with, shall we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Interview featuring GPS and A Tippling Philsopher
Below is my latest interview, conducted excellently by Jonathan MS Pearce of the Skeptic Ink blog A Tippling Philosopher. In this wide-ranging chinwag (an English term that I just learned), we discuss...
View ArticleCritical Thinking Skills (and how to use them)
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2013 Skeptics of Oz conference in Wichita, Kansas. Below is the video of my talk there, which was designed as an introduction to critical thinking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zodiac APOCALYPSE!!!
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Psychology of Belief” podcast on The Thinking Atheist
This past week I was the “special guest” on Seth Andrew’s radio show/podcast The Thinking Atheist. I had an excellent time discussing many aspects of belief and what drives and maintains it with him...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doing Science on Skeptics
A few weeks ago I mentioned a talk I would be giving about some of our recent research trying to find sort of psychological differences there are between scientific skeptics and believers in the...
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