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Posted on August 20, 2012
From MagnoliaPictures: When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right? Inspired by true events, COMPLIANCE tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd (Garden […]
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Posted in Choice Myth, Morality, Social Psychology, Video | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 27, 2012
From by UCtelevision: Robert Levenson, UC Berkeley Department of Psychology, explores the changes in emotion that occur with age. Much of his research focuses on the nature of human emotion, in terms of its physiological manifestations, variations in emotion associated with age, gender, culture, and pathology, and the role emotion plays in interpersonal interactions. A […]
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Posted in Embodied Cognition, Emotions, Video | Comments Off
Posted on March 28, 2012
From The Guardian (by Ian Tucker): Tanya L Chartrand is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina. With David T Neal from the University of Southern California she recently published a paper entitled “Embodied Emotion Perception: Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotional Perception Accuracy”, […]
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Posted on February 14, 2012
From Eureka Alert: Having a simple, easy-to-pronounce name is more likely to win you friends and favour in the workplace, a study by Dr Simon Laham at the University of Melbourne and Dr Adam Alter at New York University Stern School of Business, has found. In the first study of its kind, and published in […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Social Psychology | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 29, 2011
Since the early 2000s, much of Situationist Contributors’ research, writing, teaching, and speaking has focused on the role of “choice,” “the choice myth,” and “choicism” in rationalizing injustice and inequality, particularly in the U.S. (e.g., The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Injustice in America). That work has, among other factors, helped to inspire a growing body of fascinating […]
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Posted on November 23, 2011
This post was first published on November 21, 2007. Thanksgiving has many associations — struggling Pilgrims, crowded airports, autumn leaves, heaping plates, drunken uncles, blowout sales, and so on. At its best, though, Thanksgiving is associated with, well, thanks giving. The holiday provides a moment when many otherwise harried individuals leading hectic lives decelerate just […]
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Posted in History, Ideology, System Legitimacy | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 12, 2011
From Time: The grand jury investigation that resulted in 40 counts of child abuse against Penn State’s former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has raised profoundly unsettling psychological and moral questions about the actions — or lack thereof — of others involved in the case. Head football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the university on […]
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Posted in Education, Illusions, Morality, Social Psychology | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 7, 2011
From NPR’s Morning Edition: In 1971, at Stanford University, a young psychology professor created a simulated prison. Some of the young men playing the guards became sadistic, even violent, and the experiment had to be stopped. The results of the Stanford Prison Experiment showed that people tend to conform — even when that means otherwise […]
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Posted in Altruism, Classic Experiments, Conflict, Education, Ideology, Life, Morality, Situationist Contributors, Social Psychology | 4 Comments »
Posted on June 26, 2011
Situationist Contributor Susan Fiske’s latest book, Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us, is a must read! Here’s a description. * * * The United States was founded on the principle of equal opportunity for all, and this ethos continues to inform the nation’s collective identity. In reality, however, absolute equality is elusive. The […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Distribution, Emotions, Life, Social Psychology | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 14, 2011
From Stanford News: Claude Steele, provost of Columbia University and a preeminent scholar of social psychology, will be the next dean of Stanford University’s School of Education, President John Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy announced today. Steele was a member of the Stanford faculty from 1991 to 2009, when he assumed the position as chief […]
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Posted on June 2, 2011
From the instructional video series Psychology: The Human Experience: Influence explains individuality, group behavior, and deindividuation. Related Situationist posts: The Power of the Situation “Video on the Original Milgram Experiment,” Gender Conformity “Solomon Asch’s Classic Group-Influence Experiment,” “The Situational Effect of Groups,” Milgram-Inspired Movie “The Situation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments,” “Milgram Replicated on French TV – ‘The Game of Death’,” “A Shocking Situation,” […]
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Posted in Classic Experiments, Conflict, History, Ideology, Morality, Social Psychology, Video | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2011
From Inside Higher Ed: Republican professors and Democratic professors presumably produce different outcomes when they enter the ballot box, but what about when they record grades? A forthcoming study finds that there may be notable differences. Democratic professors appear to be “more egalitarian” than their Republican counterparts when it comes to grading, meaning that more […]
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Posted on May 5, 2011
We recently encountered an intriguing 2005 article by Andrew Taslitz, “Willfully Blinded: On Date Rape and Self-Deception” (28 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 381-446) on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * This article takes seriously the proposition that many men are telling the truth when they say that they honestly believed that […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Law, Morality, Social Psychology | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 11, 2011
From Wikipedia: A stereotype threat is the experience of anxiety or concern in a situation where a person has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about their social group. First developed by social psychologist Claude Steele and his colleagues, stereotype threat has been shown to reduce the performance of individuals who belong to negatively stereotyped groups. For […]
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Posted on February 27, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, several Harvard Law students have been blogging about a chapter (forthcoming inIdeology, Psychology, and Law, edited by Situationist Contributor Jon Hanson) by Mitchell Callan and Situationist Contributor Aaron Kay. In the second post on the topic (copied below), LLM candidate David Simon discusses legal socialization. * * * Imagine you […]
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