http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/1661/ Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/1661/#comment-12018 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:30:36 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/1661/#comment-12018 With all due respect, I do not find the post above convincing. MLK urged that people be judged by the contents of their character, and that is not a Situationist sentiment. He may have said things like, “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly,” but his statement to this effect are not about human social psychology, nor is it clear why they would present a uniquely Situationist perspective on such psychology. Admittedly, King may have *sounded* a little Situationist when he said, “the purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation,” but, again, this is not a statement about human psychology; it is a statement about the motivational effects of a particular strategy. If this is Situationist, then the KKK were also situationists for burning crosses in people’s lawns. Calling MLK a situationist just trivializes situationism as a perspective on social psychology because it threatens to enlarge the notion so much that everybody is a situationist.

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/1661/#comment-11909 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:34:55 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/1661/#comment-11909 [...] One of the best blogs on cognition, behavior, and the mind sciences is The Situationist, which examines the implications of social psychology for law, policymaking, and legal theory. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, which is celebrated in the U.S. today, The Situationist has republished a post from 2007, “Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Situationism“. [...]

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