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An Interview with NYU’s Adam Alter
Posted on March 25, 2013
As detailed in a post last week, NYU marketing and psychology professor Adam Alter’s terrific new book, Drunk Tank Pink, is now out in bookstores around the country. It is a thoroughly interesting and engaging read and well worth picking up (indeed, you can order a copy here on Amazon). As part of what I […]
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Ideology, Purity, and Environment
Posted on February 10, 2013
From UC Berkeley Press: When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that such viewpoints can be changed after all, when the messages about the need to be better stewards of […]
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Heat of the Moment
Posted on July 23, 2011
From Wired Science: The link between violence and hot weather is so intuitive that it’s embedded in our language: Hotheads lose tempers that flare, anger simmers and comes to a boil, and eventually we cool down. So what does science have to say? Do tempers truly soar with temperature? The answer, appropriately enough for these […]
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The Situation of Depression
Posted on September 29, 2010
From Gallup (09/28/10): Residents of Gulf Coast-facing counties experienced a decline in their overall emotional health, as measured by the Gallup-Healthways Emotional Health Index, in the 15 weeks after the onset of the BP oil spill. Those living in inland counties in the same Gulf of Mexico states showed no such drops in emotional health […]
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The Tort Situation of the Dallas Cowboys’ Practice Facility Collapse
Posted on May 16, 2009
Situationist contributor Michael McCann has a Sports Illustrated commentary on the tort implications of the recent and tragic collapse of the Dallas Cowboys’ indoor practice facility. We excerpt the piece below. * * * The second and more worrisome area for the Cowboys is tort law and specifically Texas law on negligence. Negligence refers to […]
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Mood & Memory
Posted on May 5, 2009
From a recent brief story, “Bad mood, better recall, researchers find“: * * * People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found. The University of New South Wales team used a Sydney news agency to test whether people’s moods had […]
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The Market as Situation and Situational Character
Posted on January 16, 2008
Publisher’s Weekly describes Michael Shermer’s new book, The Mind of the Market, as follows: Shermer provides an in-depth examination of evolutionary economics. Using fascinating examples — from monkeys that balk at unfair distributions of rewards after completing a task to humans who feel cheated when offered $10 of free money if a partner is given […]
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