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Want To Lose Weight?: Consider the Situational Values of Values
Posted on January 3, 2012
The outstanding Wray Herbert has a terrific piece on The Huffington Post about research done by Situationist Contributor, Geoffrey Cohen. Dieting and weight control are really pretty simple. We gain weight and have trouble losing it because we eat too much and move too little. If we can switch that around, most of us should […]
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The Marketing Situation of Doritos (FTC Complaint)
Posted on October 19, 2011
NPLAN filed a complaint today with the FTC today alleging that Frito-Lay has engaged in deceptive marketing to teens by disguising Doritos ads as entertainment; by collecting and using kids’ personal information in violation of its own privacy policy and without adequate disclosure about the extent and purpose of the data collection; and by engaging […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Marketing, Video | 2 Comments »
Should Obese Airline Passengers Be Forced to Buy Two Seats?
Posted on October 18, 2011
Last week, I traveled to the University of Tulsa College of Law to give a talk on the psychology of retribution. The faculty was extremely welcoming and I had a great time, but on the way back I found myself in a challenging situation. Shortly after I settled into my seat, a woman asked me […]
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David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Jon Ensign, Mark Sanford, Chris Lee, and Now Arnold Schwarzenegger and Anthony Weiner: The Disposition Is Weaker than the Situation
Posted on June 8, 2011
During the summer of 2007, we published the post below in response to the sex scandal du jour involving U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA). We republished it in the wake of former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s (D) “indiscretions.” Former U.S. Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee John Edwards’ confession had us dusting off […]
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McDonald’s Favorite Man: Don Gorske
Posted on May 19, 2011
May 17th is an important day for Ronald. You see, each year it marks the anniversary of when one Fond du Lac, Wisconsin man decided to start eating Big Macs. Since 1972, that man, Don Gorske, has eaten 25,000 of McDonald’s famous burgers — typically two a day — becoming, as I and other Situationist […]
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Holder on the Situation of Violence
Posted on May 11, 2011
In 2010, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the launch of the “Defending Childhood” initiative to help prevent children’s and young people’s exposure to violence, mitigate its effects and put an end to cycles of violence that undermine the public’s health. During this webcast, he described his vision for this initiative and its progress so […]
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The Power of Word Choice: “Lifestyle” Diseases
Posted on April 23, 2011
As readers will note, I’ve been blogging a lot about the situation of obesity recently and so I read Mark Bittman’s recent op-ed in the New York Times, “How to Save a Trillion Dollars,” with special attention. I agreed with a lot of what Bittman said about how changing our diets is one of the […]
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Sending the Wrong Message
Posted on March 23, 2011
Joe D’Amico probably had the best of intentions when he set out to eat an all-McDonald’s diet for thirty days leading up to the L.A. Marathon. And, in fact, as a result of internet buzz, his “food challenge” ended up raising $26,000 for Ronald McDonald charities. At the race a few days ago, D’Amico set […]
Posted in Deep Capture, Food and Drug Law, Marketing, Public Relations, Situationist Contributors | 2 Comments »
David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Jon Ensign, Mark Sanford, and Now Chris Lee: The Disposition Is Weaker than the Situation
Posted on February 14, 2011
During the summer of 2007, we published the post below in response to the sex scandal du jour involving U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA). We republished it in the wake of former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s (D) “indiscretions.” Former U.S. Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee John Edwards’ confession had us dusting off […]
Posted in Emotions, Evolutionary Psychology, Ideology, Life, Morality, Politics, Video | 1 Comment »
News about the Captured Situation of Food Policy
Posted on November 16, 2010
From the New York Times: Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with […]
Posted in Deep Capture, Food and Drug Law, Politics, Public Policy | 4 Comments »
Winning the Food Fight
Posted on October 27, 2010
Back at the end of August, I wrote a post about the benefits of “nudging” people towards heath, in particular, by resetting food defaults. I argued that we could combat obesity without unduly infringing on individual choice or autonomy by changing the food situation so that when a person ordered “a latte,” for example, she […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Education, Food and Drug Law, Situationist Contributors | 1 Comment »
The Social Situation of Contagious Outbreaks
Posted on September 20, 2010
From Harvard Medical School (written by David Cameron and Inga Kiderra): Your friends are probably more popular than you are. And this “friendship paradox” may help predict the spread of infectious disease. Nicholas Christakis, professor of medicine, medical sociology and sociology at Harvard University, and James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science at […]
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The Bagel Situation
Posted on August 29, 2010
If you order a “bagel with cream cheese,” how much cream cheese should be provided with the bagel? That was the question my girlfriend and I pondered the other day as we drove through New Jersey futilely trying to remove half of the cream cheese on our bagels without the aid of a knife. Why […]
Posted in Behavioral Economics, Choice Myth, Food and Drug Law, Marketing, Situationist Contributors | 7 Comments »
The Situation of Public Relations
Posted on June 19, 2010
Here at the Situationist, we spend a lot of time focused on new research from the mind sciences and, as a result, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that there are other individuals and entities (besides academics and universities) out there working tirelessly to uncover what makes us tick. Some of these […]
Posted in Food and Drug Law, Marketing, Public Relations, Situationist Contributors, Video | 2 Comments »
The Situation of Social Networks
Posted on June 18, 2010
From TEDTalks: We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know. * * […]
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