Continuing the Work: Recent Writing by RJ Starr
RJ Starr is a psychology educator and public intellectual whose work examines the psychological foundations of emotion, belief, identity, and meaning in contemporary life. His writing focuses on how individuals interpret experience, regulate emotional load, and construct coherence in environments shaped by uncertainty, fragmentation, and cultural pressure. His book, The Psychology of Being Human, published by Depthmark in September 2025, articulates a framework for understanding these dynamics through a psychologically grounded and publicly accessible lens.
Since the book’s publication, Starr has continued to publish essays and long-form psychological writing that extend the same conceptual terrain explored in that work. These pieces engage questions of belief formation, emotional clarity, perceptual rigidity, and the demands modern life places on meaning-making, without reducing these experiences to pathology or ideological explanation.
Rather than offering prescriptive guidance, the writing adopts a descriptive and explanatory posture. Emotional reactions are examined as responses shaped by attention, identity, and context. Beliefs are approached as adaptive psychological responses to uncertainty. Meaning is treated as something constructed through engagement with experience rather than supplied by authority, doctrine, or certainty.
Across this ongoing body of work, a consistent orientation is evident. The emphasis remains on understanding how experience functions before attempting to evaluate it. Psychological concepts are presented in a manner intended to be accessible without being reductive, and rigorous without becoming abstract.
Recent essays by Starr are available through his public platform and continue to develop the psychological framework introduced in The Psychology of Being Human. Depthmark remains attentive to this work as part of its broader commitment to publishing psychologically grounded, intellectually serious contributions to contemporary discourse.