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Cornel West’s Childhood Situation
Posted on January 17, 2010
From BigThink: * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Jock or Nerd? Where Did You Sit at the Dinner Table?,” “The Situation of Handguns on Urban Streets-Abstract,” and “Black History is Now.”
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Deep Capture Conference! – Tomorrow (Saturday)
Posted on April 12, 2013
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. Details here. Here is the information about our speakers: Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy […]
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2013 PLMS Conference – Save the Date!
Posted on April 6, 2013
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. For more information, visit the conference website here. Here’s a draft of the day’s schedule. Tentative Schedule 9:30 am – Coffee, tea, […]
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Adult Well Being and Social Connection
Posted on August 5, 2012
From Springer: Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia, and his colleagues. In contrast, academic achievement appears to have little effect on adult well-being. The exploratory work, looking at the child and adolescent […]
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Nancy Gertner on the Situation of Feminism
Posted on March 3, 2012
From Harvard Gazette: Nancy Gertner is a former federal judge, the author of a recent memoir (“In Defense of Women”), a professor of practice at Harvard Law School, and an authority on sentencing, jury system discrimination, forensic evidence, and other legal areas. But go back to June 1971, the month she had a loud argument […]
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The Situation of Psychopathy
Posted on January 20, 2012
A former student of mine, Brett Murphy, has co-authored a fascinating and sophisticated paper on the roots of psychopathy, which you can download on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. “Psychopathy” is a psychopathological construct involving a diverse set of affective deficits and behavioral disinhibitions that result in substantial antisocial behavior, and includes traits such as extreme […]
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A New Situationist Contributor – Thomas Blass
Posted on November 6, 2011
We are thrilled to introduce a new Situationist Contributor, Dr. Thomas Blass. Thomas Blass is an internationally acclaimed social psychologist and the recognized expert on obedience to authority as well as, more broadly, the research and legacy of Stanley Milgram. A Holocaust survivor born in Budapest, Hungary during World War II, Dr. Blass was a […]
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Holder on the Situation of Violence
Posted on May 11, 2011
In 2010, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the launch of the “Defending Childhood” initiative to help prevent children’s and young people’s exposure to violence, mitigate its effects and put an end to cycles of violence that undermine the public’s health. During this webcast, he described his vision for this initiative and its progress so […]
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Shared Human Experiences
Posted on May 3, 2011
Matt Motyl and his co-authors recently posted their excellent article, titled “Subtle Priming of Shared Human Experiences Eliminates Threat-Induced Negativity Toward Arabs, Immigrants, and Peace-Making” on SSRN (forthcoming (April 20, 2011). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. * * * Many studies demonstrate that mortality salience can increase negativity toward out-groups but few have examined variables […]
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The Tiger Mother
Posted on February 8, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, several Harvard Law students have been blogging about about system justification theory. Here is one of those posts, written by first -year student Marty Ehlenbach. Yale Law Professor Amy Chua’s recently published book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has become a seemingly endless source of fodder […]
Posted in Book, Conflict, Education, Life, System Legitimacy | 1 Comment »
Blogroll Review – Part 2
Posted on February 7, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, a group of Harvard Law students is writing a series of posts reviewing other mind-science blogs. Each post provides a summary of several blogs and features one that the author finds especially valuable. Here’s Part 2 of that series (authored by second-year student Jeremy Troxel). * * […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – October
Posted on November 30, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during October 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From BPS Research Digest: “Don’t touch! On the mixed effects of avoidant instructions” “What happens if you tell a golfer not to over-shoot a putt? […]
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