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Obama Emphasizes Situation: Romney Emphasizes Disposition
Posted on July 26, 2012
Related Situationist posts: The Situation of SuccessRandomness, Luck, Chance, and other Situational Forces Seeing Michael Phelps’s Gold Medal Situation Randomness, Luck, and other Situational Sources of Success and Failure The Situation of ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers’ Low-Effort Cognition and Political Ideology Jon Hanson on Law and Mind Sciences The Imagined Ideological Divide The Situation of Perceived Intentionality The Sound Situation of Beer Drinkers Ideology, Psychology, […]
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How Ted Kennedy’s Passing Influences ‘Obamacare’
Posted on September 12, 2009
Can Ted Kennedy’s death help shape future health care negotiations and pass a compromise bill? Yes – but not for the reasons you think. On August 24, 2009, President Barack Obama’s ambitious health care agenda looked to be at serious risk. Numerous sources such as MSNBC, CBS News, and even the blogosphere were noting that […]
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The Post-Obama Situation of Racism – Abstract
Posted on July 27, 2009
Ian Haney-Lopez, has recently posted his thoughtful paper, “Post-Racial Racism: Crime Control and Racial Stratification in the Age of Obama” on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * What does the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the United States presidency portend for race in America? This Essay uses the tremendous racial disparities in […]
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Stereotype Lift – The Obama Effect
Posted on January 24, 2009
From Sam Dillon’s article, titled “Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black Test-Takers,” in yesterday’s New York Times. * * * . . . [R]esearchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared […]
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What does an Obama victory mean?
Posted on November 22, 2008
After eight years under the same president, our country is on the verge of some major changes. This is an exciting time. The election of a new president encourages us to take a collective look in the mirror and it throws the spotlight on the distinctive characteristics of the person we’ve elected. Whom we choose […]
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The Psychology of Barack Obama as the Antichrist
Posted on August 8, 2008
We recently highlighted the possible role of implicit associations in the John McCain ad connecting Barack Obama to Britany Spears and Paris Hilton. To continue the discussion of possible subconscious manipulations in political ads, we bring you an interesting new article on McCain’s “The One” ad by Amy Sullivan of Time Magazine. Sullivan examines whether […]
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Tony Greenwald Wins the William James Fellow Award
Posted on April 8, 2013
From the Washington Daily (an article about Situationist friend Tony Greenwald): Even though a black man sits in the White House, and a gay woman legislates in the Senate, according to nearly two decades of research by a professor of psychology at the UW, Anthony Greenwald, most people are racially, ethnically, religiously, or sexually biased. […]
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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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Ryan Enos – SALMS Talk
Posted on March 1, 2013
SALMS hosted Ryan Enos at Harvard Law School on October 11, 2012, for a talk entitled “Mitt Romney Is Really, Really Good Looking: Do Attractiveness and Other Trivial Things Affect Elections?” The talk was part of the Mind Sciences & the Election series, which was cosponsored by American Constitution Society, HLS Republicans, HLS Democrats, and the Black […]
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The Implicit Party of “Independent” Voters
Posted on February 22, 2013
This post, written by Carlee Beth Hawkins about her work with Situationist Contributor Brian Nosek, was recently published on the SPSP Blog. Voters sometimes cross party lines, but not very often: In U.S. elections, for example, people who label themselves Democrats usually vote for the Democratic candidate and Republicans vote Republican. The recent 2012 election […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Situationism
Posted on January 21, 2013
This post was originally published on January 22, 2007. * * * Monday’s holiday provides an apt occasion to highlight the fact that, at least by my reckoning, Martin Luther King, Jr. was, among other things, a situationist. To be sure, King is most revered in some circles for quotations that are easily construed as […]
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Peer Pressure and Voting
Posted on October 30, 2012
From The Harvard Gazzette: Many people believe that idealism motivates them to open their wallets for a favorite candidate or that civic duty motivates them to go to the polls to vote. But don’t discount peer pressure as an important factor in elections, a political scientist says. “We operate as a family, a neighborhood, a […]
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Dr. Ryan Enos at HLS on the Role of Trivial Things on Elections
Posted on October 11, 2012
Today, October 4th 12 pm, Austin North Dr. Ryan Enos (Harvard Government) “Mitt Romney is Really, Really Good Looking: Do Attractiveness and Other Trivial Things Affect Elections?” Free Chinese food! Cognitive and social psychology have evidence that physical appearance can powerfully shape human behavior through “thin slice” judgments. Advances in measurement allow us to measure the […]
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The Situation of the 53 Percent
Posted on October 8, 2012
Situationist Contributor Eric Knowles recently published this excellent piece on Huffington Post: What has crystallized in the last few weeks of the 2012 presidential campaign is nothing less than a battle between two competing theories of success — about where success comes from and the role of government in fostering it. However, this question, which […]
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