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Performing Under Pressure
Posted on September 22, 2010
Situationist friend Sian Beilock’s highly anticipated new book, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To, is now out. As someone who has had both great successes and great failures under pressure, I’ve been very excited to read Choke since Sian first mentioned it to me. What […]
Posted in Abstracts, Book, Life, Neuroscience, Positive Psychology, Situationist Sports | 3 Comments »
Examining the Gendered Situation of Harvard Business School
Posted on May 5, 2010
Julia Brau, Paayal Desai, Alexandra Germain, Akmaral Omarova, Jung Paik, and Julie Sandler are all students at Harvard Business School (HBS) who last week published a thoughtful article in their student newspaper The Harbus. With potential lessons and relevance for many institutions, the piece discusses recent efforts to understand and address sources of gender discrepancies […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere, November 2009 – Part II
Posted on December 3, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during November 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Nicholas Herrera Psychology Today Blog: “Attributional Biases and Violent Soccer Play” “On November 5, 2009, during a soccer match between the University of New […]
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Hey Dove! Talk to YOUR parent!
Posted on September 21, 2009
[This post was first published in October of 2007.] Several weeks ago, as part of its much lauded “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty,” Unilever released “Onslaught,” a video (above) examining disturbing images of women in beauty-industry advertising. The video ends with this admonition to parents: “Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does.” It’s […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Life, Marketing, Video | 2 Comments »
Consuming Merit, Gatekeeping, and Reproducing Wealth
Posted on August 10, 2009
The op-ed excerpted below, “America’s Best Colleges: Merit by the Numbers,” by Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier and Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm, appeared in the August 5, 2009, edition of Forbes. It eloquently examines the role played and not played by universities in educating young people to promote the system-justifying illusion of merit. […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Distribution, Education, Illusions, Public Policy | 1 Comment »
The Situation of the Law School Classroom – Abstract
Posted on July 21, 2009
Robert Chang and Adrienne Davis have posted their interesting article, “Making Up is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom” (forthcoming Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2009)) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * This exchange of letters picks up where Professors Adrienne Davis and Robert Chang left off in […]
Posted in Abstracts, Education, Law | 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Education | 6 Comments »
