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Uncovering the Situation With Technology
Posted on February 11, 2011
I have a distinct memory of coming home from school one day in seventh grade and announcing to my parents that the Fairfax County Public School System had gone off the deep end. Why? They were forcing all students to learn how to touch-type! How utterly useless! I was never, ever going to need this […]
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The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain
Posted on February 3, 2013
This post (authored by Adam Benforado) was originally published on February 4, 2007. As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold […]
Posted in Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Implicit Associations, Life, Marketing, Situationist Sports | 1 Comment »
Jeremy Bailenson on Virtual Reality
Posted on January 9, 2013
From Pacific Standard (a brief excerpt from a long, worthwhile article about the work of Jeremy Bailenson): A few years ago, a research psychologist at Stanford University named Jeremy Bailenson effectively proved the soundness of Anderson’s recruitment methods (pdf). A week before the 2004 presidential election, Bailenson asked a bunch of prospective voters to look at photographs […]
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The Deeply Captured Situation of “Defensive Medicine”
Posted on September 28, 2012
Sidney Shapiro, Thomas Owen McGarity, Nicholas Vidargas, and James Goodwin, have recently published their White Paper, titled “The Truth About Torts: Defensive Medicine and the Unsupported Case for Medical Malpractice ‘Reform’” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. In the debate about health care reform, “defensive medicine” has become a convenient culprit for rising costs and especially […]
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Rebecca Saxe on the State of Cognitive Neuroscience
Posted on September 26, 2012
Rebecca Saxe is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She is also an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition. Related Situationist posts: Rebecca Saxe on Situationism Rebecca Saxe on how […]
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Mindfulness in School
Posted on August 14, 2012
From On Point Radio (with Tom Ashbrook): American children need reading, writing and arithmetic. They need science, technology, engineering, art, literature. They also, says a new movement, need a psychological tool kit filled with attention, perseverance, emotional control, “mindfulness.” Some now call it character. The habits of mind that make all else possible. Taught in […]
Posted in Education, Positive Psychology | 1 Comment »
The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain
Posted on February 5, 2012
This post was originally published on February 4, 2007. As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold is a sporting event.It […]
Posted in Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Implicit Associations, Life, Marketing, Situationist Sports | 4 Comments »
Marines Defiling Dead Taliban – Might Recent Neuroscience Shed Light?
Posted on January 11, 2012
From The Daily Princetonian: Failure in the part of the brain that controls social functions could explain why regular people might commit acts of ruthless violence, according to new study by a University research team. A particular network in the brain is normally activated when we meet someone, empathize with him and think about his […]
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The Situation of Michael S. Gazzaniga
Posted on November 15, 2011
From The New York Times, a terrific article about Michael Gazzaniga: The scientists exchanged one last look and held their breath. Everything was ready. The electrode was in place, threaded between the two hemispheres of a living cat’s brain; the instruments were tuned to pick up the chatter passing from one half to the other. […]
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Friends on the Brain
Posted on October 27, 2011
Have a lot of friends on Facebook? Think that makes you special? Well, researchers at University College London suggest that you might just be right. According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Facebook users with the largest number of pals had greater brain density in areas of the brain […]
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Lining Them Up, and Knocking Them Down
Posted on June 17, 2011
A couple weeks ago, I published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the situation of the dreaded airport security line after I contacted the TSA with a few questions about their operations. The text of the op-ed appears here and below: Hate Airport Security? Get in Line. What is the single most frustrating thing […]
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The Neuro-Situation of Shopping Choices
Posted on May 16, 2011
From ScienceDaily: Researchers at Oxford University are to study ‘neuromarketing’, a relatively new field of consumer and market research, which uses brain imaging and measurement technology to study the neural processes underlying an individual’s choice. Neuromarketing claims to reveal how consumers assess, deliberate and choose in a variety of contexts. According to neuromarketers this growing […]
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John Palfrey’s PLMS Conference Reflections
Posted on February 27, 2011
The brilliant John Palfrey posted some of his reflections about Saturday’s PLMS conference on his blog. Here are some excerpts. * * * Today, Prof. Jon Hanson is hosting the Fifth Conference on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. The idea, dating back to 2007, has been to “introduce to scholars and students […]
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Blogroll Review – Part 6
Posted on February 21, 2011
Over at the terrific new Law & Mind Blog, some Harvard Law students are 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 6 of that series (authored by 1L Marty Ehlenbach). Neuroanthropology: Featured Blog Neuroscience and anthropology, […]
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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 – December
Posted on January 27, 2011
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during December 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From BPS Research Digest: “Do political scandals really distract us from important issues?” “Barely a day goes by without some political scandal or other splashed […]
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