Omnivore - Topics in Contemporary Psychology

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is a tasty collection of links on topics in contemporary psychology. Here are three interesting and interrelated articles (linked to in the collection) on the science (or not) of psychology:

• Melanie Tannenbaum on psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness (and more). 
• Don’t panic but psychology isn’t always a science (and more). 
• An article on the psychology of the “psychology isn’t a science” argument.

Topics in contemporary psychology

Oct 23 2013
3:00PM

• Kyla Stepp (Wayne State): Change in Attitudes: What Causes People to “Change Their Minds” about Same-Sex Marriage? 
• Arnulf Kolstad (Nesna): The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited: Some Epistemological Topics in Contemporary Psychology. 
• Jennifer Radden reviews How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown by Edward Shorter. 
• George Dvorsky on why Freud still matters, when he was wrong about almost everything. 
• Melanie Tannenbaum on psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness (and more). 
• Don’t panic but psychology isn’t always a science (and more). 
• An article on the psychology of the “psychology isn’t a science” argument. 
• Christopher Chabris on why Malcolm Gladwell matters (and why that's unfortunate). 
• Caitlin Shure on insights into the personalities of conspiracy theorists: Psychologists find that distrust of authority and low agreeableness are among factors underlying the willingness to believe. 
• Christopher Shea on Stanley Milgram and the uncertainty of evil: The psychologist’s famous findings about human nature have haunted us for 50 years — but can we trust them? 
• Good intentions, bad people: Jiby Philip on how good intentions do not negate social evils or the power structures that perpetuate them. 
• Scott Barry Kaufman on 23 signs you’re secretly a narcissist masquerading as a sensitive introvert. 
• Chris Bucholz on 5 psychological flaws that warp the way you see the world.