Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

Instead of viewing racism as a moral failure, Racists Anonymous treats it like a disease from which everyone suffers.
A recent study shows that NBA players performed worse in games where they had spent the previous night staying up late and Tweeting.
In her new book, professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett proposes a radical new theory of emotions.
A new study indicates that the brain can detect and help avoid diseases in others through the senses of sight and smell alone.
Hitler appeared to have been highly sensitive to disgust, and research shows this trait is linked to numerous dimensions of ideology.
A recent study shows that migrant workers in the U.K. are three times less likely to be absent from work than their native counterparts.
A new study suggests that sensitivity to the emotion of disgust affects one's attitudes on immigration.