2011
November 23: A new link as been added to the Authority Links page. The link leads to a page with many articles about the Stanford Prison experiment. CLICK HERE for the Authority Links page .
October 13: Sharon Presley will be giving two presentations in San Diego next week at the Libertopia conference. One of the presentations is a critical thinking workshop on Saturday at 4pm. She will also speak at UC San Diego Thursday Oct 20 at 8pm on "Standing Up to Experts and Authorities."
July 23: Two new links have been added to the Authority Links page. One is a discussion of Milgram and La Boetie by libertarian writer Jeff Riggenbach. Click here. La Boetie was a 16th century writer who wrote a famous essay questioning obedience to authority titled A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. (See Wiki for La Boetie bio ) Part One of La Boetie's essay can be found at this link.
July 16: BOOK SALE! Clearing out our old inventory. All books at low, low prices. The children's books are excellent and much more expensive new, to say nothing of hard to find. Help your child learn about critical and independent thinking. Some excellent psychology book are left too, as well as some books by Norman Solomon. Click here.
March 31: RIT Advisory Council member Paula Caplan has a new blog at Psychology Today. Whether you agree with her or not, she makes you think. Caplan's book "You're Smarter Than They Make Feel: How the Experts Intimidate Us and What We Can Do About It" was a major inspiration for Dr. Presley's book, Standing Up to Experts and Authorties. CLICK HERE for Dr. Caplan's blog. Her first blog is on critical thinking about the expertise of medical doctors.
January 7: A new article has been added to the Essays section: "
Own Your Own Mind" by Sharon Presley. Click here.
Here's a link to an article on how to critically read a book. Click here.
An amusing but serious take on "anti-conformity" vs. conformity can be found at Cracked.com. Click here. We are reminded of the joke from Mad magazine in the 1960's: "It's getting hard to tell the nonconformists apart."
2010
November 28: Two new links have been added to the Authority Links page, both discussing a new French experiment on obedience to authority. This time it was done as a reality show on TV. One article is in French. Click here.
October 12: Two new essays have been added to the Critical Thinking about Authority section: "The Present and Future of Obedience to Authority (updated research since the Milgram experiment) and "Not Everyone Obeys: Personal Correlates of Resistance to Authority," both by Dr. Presley. Click here.
Dr. Presley will be speaking on "The Psychology of Freedom" at the Libertopia Conference in Los Angeles Oct 17. She will also be speaking about her new book, Standing Up to Experts and Authorities on October 18 at the Karl Hess Club in LA. For details, see the Events page of her professional website: www.sharonpresley.com.
September 16: RIT gets a new look and new organization for its materials. There will be new material to come soon; the first new piece is a review of The Mathematics of Sex. This is by far the best and most thorough examination of the research on gender comparisions of math ability.
August 15: RIT is selling off its old back inventory of books. Click here for the Big Book Sale. Supplies are limited.
August 1: Here's an excellent YouTube video about research on conformity. It's suitable for high school as well as college use. Click here
Dr. Presley's book, Standing Up to Experts and Authorities, is now available for sale through Laissez Faire Books(www.lfb.org) and on Amazon.com, as well as at the book website (www.standuptoauthorities.com).
You can now follow RIT on Facebook. Sign in to your FB account and click here.
May 30: If you want to think for yourself, you have to know who you are. Who is the self- separate and different from all other selves? You need to know what you believe and why before you can know whether you’re thinking for yourself or simply parroting what others have told you, whether you’re acting on the basis of your own beliefs and values, or simply going along with the way you’ve been told to behave by your parents, your friends or your culture. We have posted a short discussion and list of values and how to assess what your values are. This is the Values List suggested in Dr. Presley's new book. Click here to see it.
May 18: The new book Standing Up to Experts and Authorities by Dr. Presley is now available. Click here to learn about it or order it.
April 20: There is now a Facebook page and a website for Dr. Presley's book, Standing Up to Experts and Authorities. Click here for the website; click here for the Facebook page. The book is scheduled for release May 1.
The Links page has been updated
2009
September 7: Dr. Presley now has a Facebook page. Click here.
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