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Laith Al-Shawaf Ph.D.

About

Laith Al-Shawaf, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs. He has taught and conducted research in several countries and been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of scholars, an adviser at Ideas Beyond Borders, and an adviser at the Center for Applied Social Cognition Research in Lebanon. His research (with collaborators) has been featured in outlets such as the BBC, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, Slate, World Economic Forum, and Time. In 2019, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) named him a Rising Star. You can find him on Twitter at @LaithAlShawaf.

Recent Posts
What Are Emotions?
What are emotions, exactly? New developments reveal a great deal about what emotions are and how they work.
No, Evolution is Not Random
Do you think that evolution is "random", or that natural selection is a "chance" process? If so, you might be making a key error.
Detecting Bull**it

Interested in psychology? If so, you should know why astrology, homeopathy, the Myers-Briggs, and The Secret are all bunk.

Interested in psychology? If so, you should know why astrology, homeopathy, the Myers-Briggs, and The Secret are all bunk.

Detecting Bull$%#!

There's a lot of fluff adjacent to psychology that exploits our longings for certainty, success, and hope. That's great if it were all harmless, but it’s not.

There's a lot of fluff adjacent to psychology that exploits our longings for certainty, success, and hope. That's great if it were all harmless, but it’s not.