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What does an Obama victory mean?
Posted on November 22, 2008
After eight years under the same president, our country is on the verge of some major changes. This is an exciting time. The election of a new president encourages us to take a collective look in the mirror and it throws the spotlight on the distinctive characteristics of the person we’ve elected. Whom we choose […]
Posted in Ideology, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Situationism in the Blogosphere – October, Part II
Posted on November 21, 2008
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during October 2008. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Experimental Philosophy: “Causal Judgment and Moral Judgment“ “It is now widely believed that people’s moral judgments can affect their causal judgments, but a great […]
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Without the Filter
Posted on October 21, 2008
Governor Sarah Palin wants “to talk to Americans without the filter” of the “media elite.” As she explained in the vice-presidential debate, she aims to cut out the middleman in conveying information to the public: “I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you [Senator Joe Biden] want to hear, but I’m […]
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Jeffrey Sachs on Our Situation – Part V
Posted on October 20, 2008
This is Part V of a loose, unofficial transcript of Dr. Jeffrey Sachs‘s remarkable lecture “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.” He delivered this lecture on September 11, 2008 at Harvard Law School. You can link to Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, and Part IV here. * […]
Posted in Education, Law, Politics, Public Policy | 1 Comment »
Jeffrey Sachs on Our Situation – Part II
Posted on October 16, 2008
On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future.” To read summaries of remarkable presentation, see “Jeff Sachs Speaks for the Voiceless at Harvard Law School” or “Jeffrey Sachs urges students to represent the voiceless.” […]
Posted in Events, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
The Military Meets the Mind Sciences
Posted on August 14, 2008
Yesterday, Brandon Keim published a disturbing article, “Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain” in Wired Science. We’ve excerpted his introduction below, and recommend the entire article which is here. * * * Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. […]
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The Situation of Revenge
Posted on August 6, 2008
Michael McCullough has a fascinating and important new book: “Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct.” Here’s a summary. * * * For centuries, people have held several misconceptions about the nature of humanity’s desire for revenge and the human potential for forgiveness. First, from the earliest Greek tragedies to the modern mental health […]
Posted in Book, Emotions, History | 1 Comment »
Political Psychology in 2008
Posted on August 5, 2008
Sharon Begley has a very interesting article, “How Our Unconscious Votes,” in HealthNewsDigest.com. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Give the democrats of West Virginia points for honesty. As Hillary Clinton romped to a landslide of 67 to 26 percent over Barack Obama in the primary, 20 percent of voters in exit polls said that […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Emotions, Ideology, Implicit Associations, Politics | 1 Comment »
The Situation of Fear
Posted on July 10, 2008
This post was actually a comment written today in response to our post from last week, “The ‘Turban Effect.’” We thought many of our readers might find the comment interesting, so here it is. (Thanks Jeffrey.) * * * Lately, some scholars have been looking at reasons behind and implication of manipulating fear. Princeton University’s […]
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The Law and Situation of Military Propaganda
Posted on June 9, 2008
The War in Iraq has received much criticism, including for the manner in which the Defense Department and the White House misled the public on now dubious policy arguments. Two arguments routinely employed by War advocates were the alleged national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein and the supposed linkage between Hussein and Al-Qaeda. Like […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – April 2008 (Part I)
Posted on May 5, 2008
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during April. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Research Digest: “The price of thinking ‘It would have been worse under Saddam’“ “After news broke that US soldiers had mistreated their prisoners at the […]
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The Disturbing Mental Health Situation of Returning Soldiers
Posted on April 30, 2008
The military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to over 4,700 deaths of U.S. soldiers (in addition to over 1.2 million deaths of Iraqi and Afghan people) and tens of thousands of physical injuries to U.S. soldiers. As we know too well, some of those injuries are catastrophic. The mental health of returning soldiers […]
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