Nov/Dec 2014

Members of a minority ethnic group are less likely to express support for gay equality if they believe their own group suffers from discrimination.

• By Tom Jacobs

From beer milers to long-distance crawlers, the unending appeal of being No. 1.

• By Caroline Paul

Men, for all Laura Kipnis’ attempts to appear transgressive, is a cautious and old-fashioned book that illustrates male privilege rather than denying it.

• By Emily Witt

A hardened corps of volunteer editors is the only force protecting Wikipedia. They might also be killing it.

• By Virginia Postrel

People who live closer to the shore are more likely to believe in climate change and to support regulation of carbon emissions.

• By Tom Jacobs

And it's called Campbell's Law.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Even though he's still a teenager, Catalin Voss is already a six-year veteran of the i-app industry, and now he's turning his attention to figuring out how computers might interact with humans more perceptively.

• By Adam Tanner

More Americans are working late-night and early-morning hours. Who's looking after their kids?

• By Alissa Quart / Photos by Alice Proujansky

A research team looks into how Iowa's legalization of gay marriage in 2009 affected the views of registered voters.

• By Tom Jacobs

The daughter of one of the country’s leading clinical researchers of psychedelic-assisted therapy visits Amsterdam.

• By Stephie Grob Plante

With typically careful packaging, Amazon opens its doors to the public.

• By Mark Athitakis

Gen X is the most economically screwed age group. Were the slackers onto something after all?

• By Claire Dederer

The belief that hidden memories can be "recovered" in therapy should have been exorcised years ago, when a rash of false memories dominated the airwaves, tore families apart, and put people on the stand for crimes they didn't commit. But the mental health establishment does not always learn from its mistakes—and families are still paying the price.

• By Ed Cara

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Can California go full-renewable?

• By Ann Louise Bardach

In politics, are we always just looking out for No. 1?

• By Will Wilkinson

The obvious answers aren't necessarily the most accurate. Here, five studies help clear up the gender disparity in politics.

• By Nancy L. Cohen

This list includes studies cited in our pages that received funding from a source other than the researchers’ home institutions. Only principal or corresponding authors are listed.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon

The most dangerous idea in mental health, the rise of extreme daycare, the anatomy of ignorance, and more in our November/December 2014 print issue.

• By Maria Streshinsky

The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight.

• By David Dunning