Mark Cooney

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

@CampbellSocProf Wonderful news, Brad.

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

@SJacques83 @TranscriBentham Genius!

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe"

Code for "problematic but TRUE"

Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

@SJacques83 Yikes.

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

Just published by Routledge; Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America by Scott Phillips and Mark Cooney.

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

@Erbhof Source of the quote?

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

1/8
20 years ago, I heard about 9/11 on the radio in Afghanistan. At 18, I couldn’t imagine buildings so tall or why someone would kill so many people. Soon after, I was sold to the US & sent to #Guantanamo. 8 years later, when I saw video of 9/11 for the first time,

[Jason Manning @sociologyWV]

I wrote a thing for a thing: https://t.co/BsIzqcFaJ9

[Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salma_mousa_]

PBS went to Iraq to cover my work on intergroup contact, soccer, and social cohesion after ISIS.

Led by Steve Pinker, "The Violence Paradox" asks how we can foster peace in human societies.

They show the players' stories, in all their beauty and tragedy.

So, did it work?

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

observing @realDonaldTrump arriving in UK & his comments re @BorisJohnson, @SadiqKhan, etc, hard not to think back to what Churchill said about the often undiplomatic chief American diplomat John Foster Dulles: the only bull he knew who carried around with him his own china shop

[Emanuel Miller ✡️ @emanumiller]

This is brilliant.

May 1981. President Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at an Air Force base in West Berlin when a balloon pops loudly. Only two months previously, the President had been shot in an attempt on his life, not long after beginning his first term.

Reagan's response:

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

The Four Stages of Acceptance of a Scientific Theory

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

Professor Stephen Hawking's final theory: The universe is a hologram' | via @telegraph https://t.co/pfhGUhwxZa

[Jason Manning @sociologyWV]

Decription of honor cultures from Mark Cooney's classic Warriors and Peacemakers: How Third Parties Shape Violence (@MarkCooney1)

[Max Galka @galka_max]

In 2015, Brazil had as many homicides as all the blue countries combined https://t.co/eADo9HvGbu

[Jason Manning @sociologyWV]

"Honest inquiry and communication are bound to offend someone," so if colleges are to be places of inquiry and communication, "they must have a climate where people are less — not more — prone to outrage than elsewhere."
https://t.co/h0BzoT37Aq

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

When Will Academics Contest Intellectual Conflict?Socius - Mark Cooney, Scott Phillips, 2017 https://t.co/1nWo0zbeML

[Mark Cooney @MarkCooney1]

https://t.co/qr7sD0fSod