This page organizes selected popular science essays across major areas of writing, focusing on making psychological science accessible to general audiences. Click on any tile to view essays in that area.

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Dr. Al-Shawaf’s Psychology Today blog can be accessed through the tile above.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. -- Montesquieu (commonly attributed)

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time… when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... -- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark