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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

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The Lessons of “The Trick-or-Treat Study”

30.10.2025 30

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

What Makes Us Scared?

What Makes Us Scared?
15.10.2025 10

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Are You Wise? And What Actually Is Wisdom?

11.09.2025 10

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

How the Experience of Time Differs Between Adults and Children

28.08.2025 10

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

How Much Do You Trust Expert Opinion?

16.07.2025 20

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Why Is Political Extremism the New Trend?

26.06.2025 20

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

How ‘Sure’ Can You Be About Anything?

05.06.2025 9

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Critical Thinking in a Nutshell

15.05.2025 10

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Why Is Metacognition So Important for Good Thinking?

03.04.2025 40

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Evaluating Tips for Reading More

12.03.2025 8

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Why I Stopped Caring About Enhancing Everyone’s Thinking

20.02.2025 5

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Is Being Materialistic Actually a Bad Thing?

30.01.2025 10

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Want to Read More? The Psychology of Reading Fiction

Personal Perspective: Thinking about the practicalities and benefits of reading fiction regularly.

07.01.2025 6

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Manifesting Your Goals From a Critical Thinking Standpoint

Thoughts on "manifesting," the Cambridge Dictionary’s 2024 word of the year.

12.12.2024 5

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

The Psychology of the Paragraph

A brief analogy of cognitive architecture.

22.11.2024 2

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

6 Short Horror Tales That Will Psychologically Chill You

Thinking about the scares from modern short fiction.

28.10.2024 4

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

The Psychology of Ghost Stories

Ghost stories fulfill psychological pleasure and provide valuable life lessons.

16.10.2024 4

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

How to Change Your Mind When Decision-Making

Updating knowledge versus being wrong.

25.09.2024 3

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

When Critical Thinking Is Not Worth It

Personal Perspective: Should we always share our critical thinking?

04.09.2024 7

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d

Social Barriers to Critical Thinking

Thinking about the application of critical thinking in public settings.

13.08.2024 2

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Christopher Dwyer Ph.d