Psychology blogs

Scott Alexander wrote long essays on psychiatry, culture, politics, and rationality on this blog, which later became Astral Codex Ten.

Top post: Meditations on Moloch (2014)

Scientific American hosts blogs by various writers on neuroscience, physics, health, psychology, and science and society.

Top post: IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study (2012)

Shane Parrish's site on mental models, decision-making, and ideas from thinkers like Charlie Munger, with essays on concepts such as Chesterton's Fence.

Top post: This is Water by David Foster Wallace

James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, writes about habits, decision making, mental models and self-improvement.

Top post: Atomic habits

Sam Harris, a neuroscientist and author, writes and hosts the Making Sense podcast on ethics, politics, religion and health.

Top post: The Fireplace Delusion

Leo Babauta writes about minimalism, habits, focus, and simple productivity.

Top post: The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, blogs about persuasion, personal systems, politics, and science.

Top post: Goals vs. Systems

David McRaney writes about cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and self-delusion, in a blog, book, and podcast.

Top post: Survivorship Bias

Steve Pavlina writes personal development articles on productivity, sleep experiments, habits, and quitting conventional jobs.

Top post: Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (2005)

OkCupid's data team wrote the OkTrends posts, analyzing its dating data on looks, race, messaging, and profile photos.

Top post: Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)

Andy Matuschak, a software developer and researcher, writes about learning, spaced repetition, and tools for thought, and created Sparkle.

Top post: Books and lectures don't work

Scott Young writes about learning and skill acquisition, including his MIT curriculum challenge and his book Ultralearning.

Top post: Do the Real Thing

Better Humans is a Medium publication with self-improvement articles on habits, sleep, learning, and productivity.

Top post: Lifestyles of the Rich, Young and Homeless

Kevin Simler writes long essays on social behavior, status, belief, and meaning, and co-wrote The Elephant in the Brain.

Top post: Going Critical

Collaborative Fund's blog hosts essays by Morgan Housel on money, psychology, risk, and history.

Top post: The Psychology of Money

Malcolm Gladwell's site collects his magazine essays on social science, risk, success, institutions, and decision-making.

Top post: Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets.

The Last Psychiatrist is a defunct anonymous blog by a psychiatrist on narcissism, media, and how people deceive themselves.

Top post: Dove

David Cain writes essays on mindfulness, procrastination, habits, and living deliberately rather than by default.

Top post: Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

The British Psychological Society's Research Digest summarizes new psychology studies for a general audience, covering topics like personality, memory and workplace behavior.

Top post: Analysis suggests Milgram participants realised experiments not really dangerous

Freddie deBoer writes Substack essays on education, testing, politics, culture, and mental health.

Top post: It's All Just Displacement

Nir Eyal writes about habit-forming products, behavioral design, distraction and the Hook Model.

Top post: Hooked

Tofugu is a Japanese culture and language learning site with guides, textbook reviews, travel pieces and the WaniKani kanji tool.

Top post: Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit

Adam Mastroianni, a psychologist, writes essays on science, peer review, psychology, and ideas for living better.

Top post: The rise and fall of peer review (2022)

Kathy Sierra wrote this blog on making users passionate, covering learning, expertise, product design, and teams.

Top post: Don't Make the Demo Look Done (2006)

Site of philosopher John Perry, built around his essay on structured procrastination, a method of getting work done by putting off other tasks.

Top post: Structured Procrastination

Ramit Sethi writes about personal finance, earning more, negotiation, and the psychology behind money habits, and wrote the book I Will Teach You to Be Rich.

Top post: Time Management: MIT Postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, papers by 5:30

Allie Brosh writes and draws a humorous webcomic about her life, dogs, and her experience with depression.

Top post: The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything

Neuroscience and psychology news and commentary blog covering brain science, research findings, addiction, and the effects of the internet on thinking.

Top post: Did the Victorians have faster reactions?

Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes about note-taking, learning, productivity, and mental well-being.

Top post: Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Nonprofit of professors and academics promoting viewpoint diversity and open inquiry in higher education, mostly in the US.

Top post: Heterodox Academy

Mark Tarver, creator of the Qi and Shen Lisp languages, writes about Lisp, programmer psychology, open source, and British universities.

Top post: The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

Collaborative Fund's blog, mainly by Morgan Housel, covers money, investing behavior, luck, and long-term thinking.

Top post: Lucky vs. Repeatable

Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things, writes about usability, affordances, and human-centered design.

Top post: Simplicity Is Highly Overrated

Ulrich Schimmack writes on replicability and statistical validity in psychology research, critiquing studies and researchers.

Top post: How Priming Research Went off the Rails (2017)

Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist, writes about irrational decision-making, pricing, ego depletion, and economics.

Top post: Understanding Ego Depletion

Gen is a Medium publication that runs long-form features on technology, culture, and society, including pieces on calculators and psychology studies.

Top post: Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class

Mad in America publishes articles critical of the drug-based model in psychiatry, led by journalist Robert Whitaker.

Top post: Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

Michael Nielsen writes about augmenting human cognition, with a focus on memory and spaced repetition.

Top post: Augmenting Long-term Memory

After Babel is Jonathan Haidt and co-authors' publication arguing that social media and phone-based childhood drive teen mental illness.

Top post: Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

Emil Kirkegaard, a Danish researcher, writes about intelligence, sex differences, immigration, and social science, and hosts many research papers.

Top post: Intelligence and socioeconomic success A meta analytic review of longitudinal research.pdf

Stuart McMillen is an Australian cartoonist who makes comics on addiction, energy use, media and ecological limits.

Top post: Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

Richard Hanania writes a Substack on politics and the culture war, including civil rights law, wokeness and institutional politics.

Top post: Woke Institutions Is Just Civil Rights Law

Tal Yarkoni, a psychologist and data scientist, writes about statistics, research methods, academic publishing, and the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Top post: What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)

Rob Henderson writes essays on psychology, social status, and culture, drawing on his academic background and his upbringing in foster care.

Top post: Luxury beliefs are status symbols

Qualia Computing is a blog by Andrés Gómez Emilsson on consciousness, psychedelics, and the mathematics of experience.

Top post: Wireheading done right: stay positive without going insane (2016)

Better Humans is a Medium publication on self-improvement, covering habits, procrastination, mental toughness, cognitive biases, and productivity advice from various writers.

Top post: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, writes on social media, smartphones and the rise in teen mental illness.

Top post: Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Bob Sutton, a Stanford professor of management, writes about workplace behavior, hiring, leadership, and organizational research.

Top post: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

Issendai writes psychology essays on toxic relationships, estrangement, and manipulative group dynamics, including the 'sick systems' series.

Top post: How to Keep Someone with You Forever

Henrik Karlsson writes essays on creativity, thinking, childhood, agency, and writing, at the blog Escaping Flatland.

Top post: Childhoods of Exceptional People

Seth Roberts, a psychology professor, wrote about self-experimentation, diet, sleep, and the Shangri-La diet, and also speculated on Bitcoin's creator.

Top post: Whatmakesfoodfattening.pdf

A personal site with essays and book notes covering /dev/urandom, Deming's statistical process control, psychology, and EU standards.

Top post: Myths about /dev/urandom

Mark Manson writes self-help essays on values, relationships, and finding purpose, and is the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.

Top post: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

The School of Life's online library of essays on relationships, work, psychology and philosophy, associated with Alain de Botton.

Top post: On Marrying the Wrong Person

Steven Pinker, a Harvard cognitive psychologist, hosts his papers, book pages, FAQs and lecture material on language, violence, rationality and writing.

Top post: The Game of the Name [pdf]

The British Psychological Society's Research Digest summarizes new psychology studies on topics like happiness, memory, work, and trust.

Top post: We're happier when busy but our instinct is for idleness

High Existence is a site on self-improvement, consciousness, and philosophy, which also hosts essays, comics, and short fiction.

Top post: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell

Sasha Chapin writes on Substack about self-love, meditation, writing, conversation, and personal psychology.

Top post: I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone

danah boyd, a researcher of social media and youth, publishes essays and papers on social networks, privacy, and class.

Top post: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Philosopher Denis Dutton's site hosts essays and archived documents, including Roy Baumeister's talk and old Newsweek pieces on a cooling climate.

Top post: Is There Anything Good About Men?