Dr Lawrence Patihis, PhD
@lawrencepatihis
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Psychological scientist. @UCIrvine PhD. Memory reliability; expert witness. Cofounder @portuniAFAF. Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2DLN3TR
Another Amazon review has come in for my Trauma, Memory, and Law book, this time from @DrDavidLey If you want to learn about memory reliability research that might help in court, as well as a debunking of repressed memory theories, here it is: amazon.co.uk/Trauma-Memory-…
I am proud to be an original signatory of the Buckingham Manifesto. Thanks to @epkaufm for creating the conference and this statement. Thanks to fellow psychologists McNally, Satel, Jussim, Haltigan, Pinker, etc for also signing. chronicle.com/blogs/letters/…
Released today: Anyone who is opposed to shutting people up by force is bound to be faced with arguments that suppressing speech isn’t so bad after all. But these arguments were considered and rejected decades ago, and this is a perfect handy guide on how to answer them, by a…
Proudly announcing today's publication of THE WAR ON WORDS by Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen. Buy your copy here: skyhorsepublishing.com/9781949846829/…
The morality of expensive advertising to extract billions from lenders via class action vs the morality of commissions in car loans. You decide. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
The Buckingham Manifesto for a Post-Progressive Social Science A growing recognition of the excesses of the cultural left has created an opening in contemporary intellectual life. This moment requires a new research agenda, a post-progressive movement in the social sciences and…
Still a week left to sign up for the evolutionary psychiatry debate day in Cambridge - the best opportunity of this year to meet up with others interested in the field! Discussing key topics of depression and the future of the field buff.ly/daHzwQK
‘Compliance with the OfS guidance is no small matter, but institutions will gain considerably not only from the very fact of doing so, but also in terms of reputation in terms of their relevant commitment.’ @TheCriticMag thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…
Then, also as part of Stage 1, remove highly politicised job titles immediately, fully document all processes for appointments, promotions, etc, and remove existing statements on pledges not directly about HE. (2) thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…
Stage 1: removal of ‘all requirements for pledges of allegiance to contested aspects of EDI and other ideologies from processes involving admissions, appointments, promotions, probations and training’ (but not wider legal EDI duties). thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…
Pseudoscience in psychotherapy continues, hopefully not in the majority.
Have you ever looked at @Careerflex and said to yourself, "That guy is probably transgender." Well, that is what one clinical psychologist told him, missing the more obvious diagnosis of being a military veteran with PTSD.
How universities can comply with the final free speech guidance issued by the Office for Students, by @ianpacemain thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…
2/ The job description requires the role-holder to commit to promoting equity in their area and in their personal conduct. It also requires commitment to various other values.
Solzhenitsyn once said live not by lies, in the midst of equity ideology authoritarianism. Academics in some UK universities are living a bit with lies in 2025. Similar dynamics at a lesser scale. Even the best are trading in half-lies to lower blood pressure.
Just out from Palgrave, with writers from all over the world. I have a chapter on the state of free speech and open enquiry in the UK. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Even small amounts of exercise are associated with a significant reduction in depression.
Shutting down speech doesn’t stop “bad” ideas—it buries them where they grow unchecked. Talking about them is where real strength and change begin.