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		<title>The Toll of Discrimination on Black Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Eureka Alert:

African-American women experiencing discrimination no longer feel masters of their own destiny
Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women&#8217;s mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone to depression. These findings (1) by Dr. Verna [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9165&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-toll-of-discrimination-on-black-women/</link>
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		<title>Barbara Ehrenreich on the Sources of and Problems with Dispositionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From GRITtv: &#8220;Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s new book looks at the downside of looking on the bright side, which she says has undermined America.&#8221;
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To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see &#8220;Barbara Ehrenreich – a Situationist,&#8221; “The Motivated Situation of Inequality and Discrimination,” “Thanksgiving as “System Justification”?,” “Cheering for the Underdog,” “Ayn Rand’s Dispositionism: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9161&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/barbara-ehrenreich-on-the-sources-of-and-problems-with-dispositionism/</link>
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		<title>The Situational Power of Appearance and Posture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From EurekaAlert:
First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin.
Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in creating first impressions, until now little research has examined the accuracy of personality [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9131&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-situational-power-of-appearance-and-posture/</link>
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		<title>Dan Gilbert on Why the Brain Scares Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Harvard Law Record, Harvard Law Students, Anush Emelianova and Gustavo Ribeiro, wrote a nice summary of Dan Gilbert&#8217;s recent lecture at Harvard Law School.  His lecture, titled &#8220;Why Does the Brain Scare Itself?,&#8221; drew a  crowd of roughly 150 students and contributed to Gilbert&#8217;s reputation as an amazing and captivating speaker.    Here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9116&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/dan-gilbert-on-why-the-brain-scares-itself/</link>
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		<title>The Corporate Situation of the Prison Population</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the video below, Free Speech TV&#8217;s news magazine program SourceCode looks inside the private prison boom, and at the growing opposition to for-profit private prisons, jails, and detention centers.
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Stephen Colbert recently parodied the trend.

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For a sample of related Situationist posts, see &#8220;Conference on the Free Market Mindset,&#8221; “The Situation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=6941&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-corporate-situation-of-the-prison-population/</link>
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		<title>Situationism in the Blogosphere – October 2009, Part I</title>
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Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during October 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source).
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From 3 Quarks Daily: “Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite” 
“When you&#8217;ve spent the weekend splurging on greasy fast foods, your bathroom scale isn&#8217;t alone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9057&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/situationism-in-the-blogosphere-%e2%80%93-october-2009-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Asymmetric Introspection and Extrospection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Situationist Contributor Emily Pronin recently wrote a very helpful primer on her work on the difference between &#8220;How We See Ourselves and How We See Others,&#8221; which she published in Science.  Here&#8217;s the abstract.
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People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9047&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/asymmetric-introspection-and-extrospection/</link>
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		<title>The Interior Situation of Honesty (and Dishonesty)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seed magazine recently provided a terrific summary of fascinating research on the situation of honesty (here). Here are some excerpts.
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In a famous set of experiments in the 1970s, children were observed trick-or-treating in the suburbs. Some were asked their names and addresses upon arriving at a door, while some were asked nothing. All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9027&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-interior-situation-of-honesty-and-dishonesty/</link>
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		<title>Jim Sidanius, “Under Color of Authority: Terror, Intergroup Violence and ‘The Law’”</title>
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Jim Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.  His primary research interests include the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice.
At the second annual conference on Law and Mind Sciences, which took place im March of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=9006&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/jim-sidanius-%e2%80%9cunder-color-of-authority-terror-intergroup-violence-and-%e2%80%98the-law%e2%80%99%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>The Situation of Gang Rape</title>
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In the wake of the horrific story about a 15-year-old girl gang-raped in a schoolyard during a homecoming dance.  The girl was brutalized for more than two hours and, if that wasn&#8217;t disturbing enough, there are reports of as many as twenty people stood by and watched, without even calling authorities.  The story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesituationist.wordpress.com&blog=639678&post=8978&subd=thesituationist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-situation-of-gang-rape/</link>
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