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Posted on December 15, 2012
Part 3 of the BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Jacques Peretti examines assumptions about what is and is not healthy. He also looks at how product marketing can seduce consumers into buying supposed ‘healthy foods’ such as muesli and juices, both of which can be high in sugar. He speaks […]
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Posted on December 14, 2012
Part 2 of the BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Jacques Peretti investigates how the concept of ‘supersizing’ changed our eating habits forever. How did we – once a nation of moderate eaters – start to want more? Speaking to Mike Donahue, former McDonalds Vice President, Peretti explores the history behind […]
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Posted on December 12, 2012
From Introduction of BBC’s Remarkable Three-Part Series “The Men Who Made Us Fat”: Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese. In the first of this three-part series, Jacques Peretti traces those […]
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Posted on December 5, 2012
Social psychologist and Situationist friend Dave Nussbaum has another outstanding situationist post over on Random Assignments. Here’s how it starts. One of the obstacles that keeps the poor from rising out of poverty is the tendency to make costly financial decisions – like buying lottery tickets, taking out high interest loans (PDF), and failing to […]
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Posted on November 1, 2012
“He’s Still Black: The Role of Race in the 2012 Presidential Election” With Dr. Don Kinder, University of Michigan Political Science Thursday, Nov. 1, 12 pm Austin North Free Chinese food! In 2008, Americans chose Barack Obama to be the 44th president of the United States. The following morning, The New York Times proclaimed that […]
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Posted on October 20, 2012
Oren Bar-Gill recently posted his introductory chapter for his intriguing new book, “Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics and Psychology in Consumer Markets” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. Consumers routinely enter into contracts with providers of goods and services. These contracts are designed by sophisticated sellers to exploit the psychological biases of consumers. They provide short-term […]
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Posted on October 11, 2012
Today, October 4th 12 pm, Austin North Dr. Ryan Enos (Harvard Government) “Mitt Romney is Really, Really Good Looking: Do Attractiveness and Other Trivial Things Affect Elections?” Free Chinese food! Cognitive and social psychology have evidence that physical appearance can powerfully shape human behavior through “thin slice” judgments. Advances in measurement allow us to measure the […]
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Posted on September 16, 2012
From TEDxTC: A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. At TEDxTC Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately need to begin “terraculture” — farming for the whole planet. Jonathan Foley studies complex environmental systems and their affects on society. His computer models […]
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Posted on September 14, 2012
Video from UMISR: Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you’ll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. In this video, ISR researcher Emily Falk talks about her current and future research. From APS (regarding Psychological Science article by Emily Falk, Elliot T. Berkman, and Matt Lieberman): […]
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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 on June 22, 2012
From TEDtalksDirector: Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that — and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and […]
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Posted on May 7, 2012
From Wired: Jonathan Haidt is a professor in social psychology and author of The Righteous Mind, an examination of the intuitive foundations of morality and its consequences. He has some disgusting stories for you. Imagine, if you will, a man going to a supermarket, buying a ready-to-cook chicken, taking it home, and having sexual intercourse […]
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Posted on May 3, 2012
From UC Berkeley: “Love thy neighbor” is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and less religious people. In three experiments, social scientists found that compassion consistently drove less religious […]
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Posted on April 1, 2012
As the final SALMS talk of this academic year, Daria Roithmayr will deliver her talk, “The Evolution of Legal Punishment” on Monday, 4/2, 12 p.m., Wass. 1023 (Chinese food served). Professor Daria Roithmayr (USC Law) teaches and writes in the area of critical race theory and comparative law, focusing on the area of structural racial […]
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Posted on March 29, 2012
Neuroscience, Psychopathology, and Crime Postponed until fall. Wasserstein 1023 Friday, March 30, 2012, 12 – 1pm Why can’t some people stop themselves from doing things that are bad for them? Why can’t some people stop themselves from doing things that hurt others? These questions have puzzled philosophers, economists, and psychologists for centuries. Professor Joshua Buckholtz […]
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Posted on March 4, 2012
1. “Life at the Top: Evidence on Elite Leaders and Stress Hormone Secretion” Jennifer Lerner, HKS Monday, 3/5, 12 p.m. Wasserstein 1023 Chinese food will be served! Dr. Lerner’s presentation will address her latest research into the relationship between stress and leadership. Leadership is widely believed to be associated with elevated stress. But if leadership […]
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Posted on March 1, 2012
In my Business Organizations course this semester, we have been spending some time thinking about the collection and use of consumer data by corporations. We have looked at the types of information that companies gather, how they employ statisticians to “weaponize” this information, and whether (and in what ways) the government might effectively (and constitutionally) […]
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Posted on February 19, 2012
Paul Bloom, Yale psychology professor, will speak at Harvard Law School tomorrow (Monday) in a talk titled “Do Babies Have a Sense of Morality and Justice? Is Kindness Genetic or Learned?” Professor Bloom will argue that even babies possess a rich moral sense. They distinguish between good and bad acts and prefer good characters over […]
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Posted on February 17, 2012
This book review appeared earlier this week in the American Scientist: THE FAIR SOCIETY: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice. Peter Corning. xiv + 237 pp. University of Chicago Press, 2011. $27.50. After decades of exclusion from meaningful social and political discourse, themes of social justice are making a serious […]
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