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Influence of Psychology on Ideology

The influence of psychology on ideologies (the series)
How Human Psychology Shapes Belief Systems That Sustain—or Undermine—Material Progress
 • Michael Magoon
How a Generation of Young Women Moved Left after 2010—And Why
Biology, declining marriage/religion, social media, and the moralization of distress
 • Michael Magoon
Do Genes Cause Mental Disorders?
What a new study sampling one million genomes reveal about shared risk across mental illness
 • Michael Magoon
The Most Dangerous Minds Aren’t Like Ours—And Now We Can Prove It
Yes, We Now Have Direct Evidence Linking Radical Ideology to Mental Disorder
 • Michael Magoon
Why Radical Ideologies Rise—and Why They Always Collapse
A Psychological Framework for Explaining the Rise and Self-Destruction of Radical Ideologies
 • Michael Magoon
Mental delusions and ideologies
They are not so different as we might think.
 • Michael Magoon
The dangers of ideology to future progress (the series)
A Table of Contents with links to a series of articles on this topic.
 • Michael Magoon
Is material progress driving us crazy?
And, if so, why?
 • Michael Magoon
Radical ideologies feast on mental disorders
And Cluster B personality disorders
 • Michael Magoon
Where does ideology come from?
And how it interferes with making the world a better place
 • Michael Magoon
Why studying Progress may be an antidote to your troubles
And it is a hell of a lot cheaper than therapy!
 • Michael Magoon
Why are people still unhappy in a world of progress?
Progress cannot solve mental disorders (or at least it has not done so yet)
 • Michael Magoon
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