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Prejudiced at Age 3?
Posted on June 27, 2012
Excerpts from a recent Boston Globe article about recent work Situationist Contributor, Mahzarin Banaji: For more than four decades, the notion that racism and physical prejudice don’t fully develop in humans until the teen or adult years has been at the root of research into racism. Popular scientific belief had been that children, who only […]
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Rebecca Onie on the Situation of Health (and Health Care)
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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Race and Dehumanization
Posted on June 15, 2012
I was very sorry to miss the Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law Book Launch Conference yesterday. It’s rare for such a great set of law and mind sciences speakers to assemble in one spot and the topic continues to be of great importance for all those committed to ironing out injustice in our legal […]
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The Situation of Chicago School “Law and Economics”
Posted on June 10, 2012
From Business Week (an article, by Peter Coy, including several quotations from Situationist Editor, Jon Hanson): Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. If the light bulb needed changing, the market would have done it by now. Chicago-style free-market economics is an easy target for satire, […]
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Race and Racism Among Children
Posted on May 25, 2012
From CNN: Anderson Cooper details a study that seeks to gain insight into the way black and white children perceive each other. A sample of related Situationist posts: The Pretense of Colorblindness “Talk to an Iraqi” from This American Life The Situation of the Obama Presidency and Race Perceptions Color Conscious Situation of Neighborhood Choice The Legal and […]
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How Deceptive Advertising Preys Upon Our Minds
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) […]
Posted in Deep Capture, Marketing, Neuroscience | 2 Comments »
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Situationism
Posted on January 15, 2012
This post was originally published on January 22, 2007. * * * Monday’s holiday provides an apt occasion to highlight the fact that, at least by my reckoning, Martin Luther King, Jr. was, among other things, a situationist. To be sure, King is most revered in some circles for quotations that are easily construed as […]
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If It’s Evitable, I Don’t Like It!
Posted on March 24, 2011
Situationist Contributor Aaron Kay as well as Peter A. Ubel and Gavan Fitzsimons wrote the following editorial for the Detroit Free Press.: This week it will be one year since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. Despite all the controversy that preceded the bill’s passage, most health policy experts confidently […]
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Uncovering the Situation With Technology
Posted on February 11, 2011
I have a distinct memory of coming home from school one day in seventh grade and announcing to my parents that the Fairfax County Public School System had gone off the deep end. Why? They were forcing all students to learn how to touch-type! How utterly useless! I was never, ever going to need this […]
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Reactions to the Repeal of DADT
Posted on February 8, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, several Harvard Law students have been blogging about about System Justification Theory. Here is one of those posts, written by first-year student Michael Lieberman. * * * In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proudly proclaimed: “Starting this year, no American will be forbidden […]
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Blogroll Review – Part 2
Posted on February 7, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, a group of Harvard Law students is writing a series of posts reviewing other mind-science blogs. Each post provides a summary of several blogs and features one that the author finds especially valuable. Here’s Part 2 of that series (authored by second-year student Jeremy Troxel). * * […]
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A Horror Movie for Palinites?
Posted on January 19, 2011
Despite my love of cinema, I tend to always fall behind on catching the latest movies. Case in point: during the past weekend, I finally had the opportunity to see The King’s Speech, which my own grandmother watched and wrote me about . . . last year. As a sort of New Year’s resolution, I’m […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Entertainment, Ideology, Politics, Video | 2 Comments »
