Do you see that, friends, do you see what the Chicago Sun-Times is writing about Blagodicks’ hair? This is like a bad version of 9/11 — the psychologists (the intelligence community) could tell from his sexy hair (the intelligence) that he would be comically corrupt (fly into two tall buildings). When will clinical psychologist Scott Ambers (George Tenet) apologize for not warning Illinois (America) about Rod Blagojevich’s hair? MORE »

We love all the weird scientific-studies-with-political-implications that are Richard Morin’s stock-in-trade (see links collected below). In today’s Post, citing a study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, he informs us: MORE »

Churning out scientific studies connecting personality traits with political views — e.g., conservatives are happier, or secretly racist, or just plain scary — has turned into a veritable cottage industry. And the studies just keep on coming. MORE »

This article sits atop the most e-mailed articles list on the Washington Post website this afternoon. Shankar Vedantam reports on groundbreaking psychological research revealing that “partisans stubbornly discount any information that challenges their preexisting beliefs.” Here’s a discussion of the study’s methodology: MORE »