The Archive - Global Psych
Gastrodiplomacy: Why Food Is One of the Most Persuasive Forms of Soft Power
A Simply Put Psych article on gastrodiplomacy, soft power, and the psychology of food. Explore how meals shape trust, identity, memory, and national image.
Debate Bros: How “Mic Drop” Culture Poisons Political Discourse
A political psychology guide to “debate bro” culture, exploring performative argument, status, outrage, tribal reward, motivated reasoning, and why viral political debate is often terrible for democracy.
Climate Change as National Security, Not Just a Lifestyle Preference
A political psychology guide to climate change as national security, exploring moral reframing, patriotism, stewardship, energy independence, and why climate arguments often fail across political lines.
Faith, Freedom, and the Problem of Moral Ownership
A political psychology guide to religion in American public life, exploring faith, freedom, pluralism, moral order, coercion, and why both sides often think they are defending liberty.
The Economy and Fairness: Who’s Carrying the Load?
A political psychology guide to fairness in the American economy, exploring deservingness, resentment, responsibility, structural inequality, and why left and right hear “fairness” so differently.
Why Americans Keep Shouting Past Each Other
A political psychology guide to why Americans talk past each other, exploring moral language, identity-protective reasoning, echo chambers, and how real listening works in political disagreement.
Common Ground: What Most Americans Actually Agree On
A political psychology guide to what most Americans actually agree on, exploring common ground, affective polarisation, media distortion, moral language, and why the country often looks more divided than it is.
What “Progressive” Really Means in America
A political psychology guide to American progressivism, exploring fairness, reform, inclusion, structural inequality, and why “progressive” means more than just being culturally left-wing.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Left and Right in the United States
A clear political psychology guide to the Left and Right in the United States, exploring values, identity, fairness, freedom, tradition, threat, and why Americans so often talk past each other.
2026 Dethrones 1984: When a Warning Turned Into a Guidebook
Re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 in 2026 feels less like revisiting dystopian fiction and more like recognising how modern America has normalised attacks on truth, language, history, and dissent.
Horseshoe Theory: Does It Have a Leg to Stand On?
Is horseshoe theory a useful way to understand politics, or just a flattering myth for centrists? A critical look at ideology, extremism, and the psychology of categorisation.
When Power Plays the Victim: DARVO, Trump, and the Politics of Reversed Harm
A critical examination of DARVO in politics, exploring Trump, strategic victimhood, audience psychology, and why modern political culture rewards deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender tactics.
Mirrors With Momentum: How AI Can Reflect, Reinforce, and Escalate Human Vulnerability
How can AI intensify delusion, grandiosity, self-harm, and suicide risk? This essay explores reflective escalation, human-AI relationships, and the psychology of dangerous validation.
The Ingroup Illusion: How Modern Societies Hide Their Own Monsters
A dark applied psychology essay on WEIRD societies, ingroup bias, and why modern cultures often fear outsiders while overlooking dangerous insiders hidden behind respectability.
How People Become Prejudiced: The Psychology of Closing Yourself Off
How do people become racist, sexist, or morally rigid? This political psychology essay explores how fear, identity, socialisation, and status anxiety can close people off from difference.
UK Immigration, Crime, and the Self-Fulfilling Funnel
UK immigration debates blame migrants for crime. This explainer shows how demographics, exclusion, and policy design drive outcomes instead.
How 2025 became the year the UK exported its weapons abroad and imported its repression at home
How the UK enforces terrorism law against protest while ignoring its own arms export obligations, exposing double standards, legal cherry-picking, and democratic erosion.
The White House’s “Media Offender” Page: An Academic Dissection of an Official Exercise in Projection, Propaganda, and Bureaucratic Immaturity
An in-depth analysis of the White House’s “Media Offender” page that uncovers factual distortions, psychological projection, bureaucratic immaturity, and the misuse of taxpayer resources. A damning academic teardown of an official propaganda effort disguised as fact-checking.
Trans Athletes in 2025: A Science First Direction
A detailed, evidence based analysis of transgender athletes in 2025, exploring science, fairness, hormone research, policy gaps, and sport specific solutions.
Nick Fuentes’ Cult‑Like Radicalization Tactics and Extremist Rhetoric
Nick Fuentes has evolved from a fringe online provocateur into the leader of a disciplined, insular youth movement built on white nationalism and authoritarianism. This piece examines how he deploys cult-style manipulation, coded language, and digital organizing to recruit and radicalize followers—and why his growing influence in U.S. politics matters.