Neighbor looking out for Neighbor – Alert Spring Branch resident witnesses home invasion and calls 911

We’ve learned more about the three men arrested Tuesday after a Houston police officer was shot and wounded while responding to a home invasion in the Spring Branch area. Two of the suspects have prior convictions

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How we got here, e.g., the social and political divide in the U.S., will be analyzed in coming posts in the Unity section. Historical and psychological perspectives should help to dissolve the

Jonathan Haidt On How We Lost Our Collective Minds

Who is Jonathan Haidt? His more recent work, including his article last month in The Atlantic, “Why The Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” goes beyond what’s happened

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

By Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, May 2022 Issue -- Social media and its effects on our discourse and culture, the need for a shared story, the importance of dissent, the distinctions between

Unconscious Reactions Separate Liberals and Conservatives

Psychological insights might tone down the bitter feuding between Democrats and Republicans By Emily Laber-Warren Scientific American September 2012 Issue

BIG 5 personality traits help explain the differences between conservatives & liberals

Jordan Peterson describes how the Big 5 personality traits help to explain the differences between conservatives and liberals “… You know also if you think about politics from a temperamental perspective it