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Posted on April 7, 2011
From PsychOrg: Psychological research has consistently shown that women feel unhappy with their body after looking at images of thin, idealized models, which are typically represented in the media. However, today’s consumer culture and media promote not only the ideal of perfect beauty, but also that of the material affluent lifestyle, both of which are […]
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Posted on February 15, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, several Harvard Law students have been blogging about a chapter by Mitchell Callan and Situationist Contributor Aaron Kay. In the first post on the topic (copied below), 1L student Becky Ding summarizes the chapter (forthcoming in Ideology, Psychology, and Law, edited by Situationist Contributor Jon Hanson). * […]
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Posted on May 25, 2010
Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong recently posted their article, titled “Do Green Products Make Us Better People?” (forthcoming Psychological Science) on SSRN. * * * Consumer choices not only reflect price and quality preferences but also social and moral values as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Choice Myth, Marketing, Morality | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 8, 2009
Situationist Contributor John Bargh, with his co-authors Jennifer Harris and Kelly Brownell, recently published an interesting article, “Priming Effects of Television Food Advertising on Eating Behavior” (28 Health Psychology 404 (2009)) on the subconscious behavioral consequences of food advertising. Here’s the abstract. * * * Objective: Health advocates have focused on the prevalence of advertising […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Choice Myth, Food and Drug Law, Life, Marketing, Situationist Contributors | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 14, 2009
Situationist contributor Grainne Fitzsimons conducted a fascinating study in collaboration with Gavan Fitzsimons and Tanya Chartrand on the effects of popular company logos on human behavior. In the following video Gavan and Tanya describe the study. * * * * * * To read some related Situationist posts, see “The Unseen Behavioral Influence of Company Logos,” […]
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Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Entertainment, Implicit Associations, Marketing, Situationist Contributors, Social Psychology, Video | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2009
Below you will find some excerpts from an important paper by Situationist Contributor John T. Jost and six distinguished co-authors (Laurie A. Rudman, Irene V. Blair, Dana R. Carney, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Jack Glaser, Curtis D. Hardin). The paper is titled “The Existence of Implicit Bias is Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Refutation of Ideological and Methodological […]
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Posted in Abstracts, Choice Myth, Implicit Associations, Social Psychology | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 28, 2009
Barbara O’Brien and Daphna Oyserman recently posted a draft of their paper, “It’s Not Just What You Think But Also How You Think About it: The Effect of Situationally Primed Mindsets on Legal Judgments and Decision Making” (forthcoming in 92 Marquette L. Rev. (2008)) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Lawyers intuitively understand […]
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Posted on September 22, 2008
The Project on Law and Mind Science recently launched a policy-oriented implicit association test (IAT). The IAT is an experimental method designed to measure associative information that people are either unwilling or unable to report. The test was first published by Greenwald and colleagues in 1998. The IAT builds on the implicit-explicit distinction in memory. […]
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Posted in Ideology, Implicit Associations, Politics | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 2, 2008
Situationist contributor Grainne Fitzsimons and her research on the effects of popular company logos on human behavior are the subject of an interesting article by Joseph Brean of the National Post. We excerpt portions of his article below. * * * The personality of corporate brands, such as the creativity of Apple or the honesty […]
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Posted in Choice Myth, Marketing, Social Psychology | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 22, 2008
This post is a mashup of several newspaper articles, including Shelley Emling’s article, “Blondes, ready for some bad news?,” Tom Spears’s piece, “‘Paris Hilton factor’ sucks IQ points from men and women equally,” and, from Psychology Today, an excerpt from the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, which explores, among other “politically incorrect truths […]
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Posted in Entertainment, Implicit Associations, Social Psychology | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 2, 2008
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during December. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From BPS Research Digest Blog: The Mere Sight of Alcohol Impairs Drinkers’ Memories “For students who like a tipple or three, the mere sight of a […]
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Posted on December 6, 2007
This is the fourth in a series of posts summarizing the research on the hidden situation of our consciousness. This post excerpts a New York Times article (07/31/07) by Benedict Carey. In the article, “Who’s Minding the Mind,” Carey summarizes some of the fascinating new research–including studies by Situationist contributors John Bargh and Aaron Kay–that […]
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Posted in Choice Myth, Implicit Associations, Social Psychology | 5 Comments »
Posted on November 20, 2007
This is the second in a series of posts summarizing the research on the hidden situation of our consciousness. This post, like Part I, draws from a 2003 article by Situationist contributors Jon Hanson and David Yosifon “The Situational Character.” Part I began with Hanson and Yosifon’s summary of some of the fascinating research revealing […]
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Posted on November 9, 2007
In the mid-1970s, Situationist contributor Timothy Wilson with Richard Nisbett conducted one of the best known social psychology experiments of all time. It was strikingly simple and involved asking subjects to assess the quality of hosiery. Situationist contributors Jon Hanson and David Yosifon have described the experiment this way: Subjects were asked in a bargain […]
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Posted on September 20, 2007
It’s often said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but as social science teaches, “beauty can behold the eye” may prove far more accurate. Indeed, a new study authored by Florida State University psychologist Jon Maner indicates that we are genuinely distracted by beautiful people and for reasons that often rest outside […]
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Posted in Life, Social Psychology | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 15, 2007
Jeff Dubner of the Harvard Law Record has an excellent recap of Conference on Law and Mind Sciences that we hosted last week at Harvard Law School. We described this conference last week, and Jeff provides some great detail of the event, which featured a number of prominent social psychologists and legal scholars. Here is […]
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