Cornerstone

In his Spotlight session on Monday, Mike Wiggins cited Brené Brown’s research on the link between vulnerability and creativity. Brown is a social scientist who uses qualitative research methods to understand human behavior, and her research has led her to the conclusion that a joyful, creative life depends on embracing vulnerability. When fear of vulnerability…

Last year, film director Sarah Polley released her first feature length documentary, The Stories We Tell. The subject: her own family. Specially, her mother, who died when she was eleven years old. The film’s byline reads: “A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family…

Last summer, the Los Angeles Times published a territorial squabble among academics that highlighted a perennial question: should psychology, or any other social science for that matter, be included among the “true” sciences like chemistry, biology, and physics? The kerfuffle began when Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, published an op-ed piece titled,…