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Europe needs a shared social identity, and fast!

Comparing the recent rise of populism in Europe (or really across the world) with the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 20th century is sometimes presented as inflammatory, distasteful and stigmatizing. However, if we want to know what’s happening now, it wouldn’t be helpful to restrict our scope, to maybe even establish that the […]

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Birol in Politics, Psychology, Research, Science | Leave a comment

Evolutionary flaws and right-wing populism

Right-wing populism is undeniably on the rise in Europe. Parties such as the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) are on all time highs in the polls, while their counterparts, most notably the German chancellor Angela Merkel, are increasingly pushed in the defensive. Surely, the refugee crisis fuels fears and fear is the wind in the sails […]

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Birol in Politics, Psychology, Science | Leave a comment

The Cologne Incidents: Sexism and misogyny, or us versus them?

2016 didn’t start under the best auspices, especially in Cologne, Germany. We may not know every detail currently, but it sure seems that numerous women were assaulted, harrassed and even raped during the New Year’s festivities in the center of the German metropolis. More aggravating even is the all too credible observation that these assaults […]

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Birol in Politics, Psychology | Leave a comment

The Greece crisis: What’s Culture got to do with it?

No need to reiterate or even summarize the many accounts of how the draconian ‘deal’ with Tsipras’ Greece was conceived. We don’t know what we know or don’t know, until maybe in a few decades a few of the protagonists decide the world is really ready for their tell-all memoirs. What we do know, presumably […]

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Birol in Politics, Psychology | Leave a comment

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