Search Results
Fifth PLMS Conference Agenda
Posted on February 23, 2011
“The Psychology of Inequality” Saturday, February 26, 2011 Tentative Schedule 8:45 – 9:15: Continental Breakfast 9:20 – 9:35: Opening Remarks (“The Psychology of Inequality”) 9:40 – 11:00: Session 1 Inequality and Health Outcomes: • 9:40 – 10:05: Ichiro Kawachi, “Is Inequality Damaging to Population Health”: More than two decades of research in the health sciences […]
Posted in Distribution, Events | 2 Comments »
Thanksgiving as “System Justification”
Posted on November 24, 2010
This post was first published on November 21, 2007. Thanksgiving has many associations — struggling Pilgrims, crowded airports, autumn leaves, heaping plates, drunken uncles, blowout sales, and so on. At its best, though, Thanksgiving is associated with, well, thanks giving. The holiday provides a moment when many otherwise harried individuals leading hectic lives decelerate just […]
Posted in History, Ideology, System Legitimacy | Leave a Comment »
The Implicit Situation of Love
Posted on August 16, 2010
Earlier this month, Anthony Greenwald, one of the pioneers in IAT research, posted on Scientific American. Here is how his piece, titled “I Love Him, I Love Him Not” began. * * * Over a decade ago, I devised a test for detecting attitudes and biases operating below the level of a person’s awareness. Known […]
Posted in Emotions, Implicit Associations, Life | Leave a Comment »
Situationism in the Blogosphere – May, Part II
Posted on June 21, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during May 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Experiments in Philosophy: “Sex on the Bench: Do Women and Men Have Different Moral Values?” “With Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan, the United […]
Posted in Abstracts, Blogroll | Leave a Comment »
Situationism in the Blogosphere – May, Part I
Posted on June 8, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during May 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Big Think: “To Improve Girls’ Science Scores, Show Them Women Scientists” “Standardized tests are supposed to measure innate abilities. The subject of your last […]
Posted in Abstracts, Blogroll | Leave a Comment »
The Interior Situational Reaction to Inequality
Posted on February 25, 2010
From EurekAlert: The human brain is a big believer in equality—and a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has become the first to gather the images to prove it. Specifically, the team found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when […]
Posted in Abstracts, Conflict, Distribution, Emotions, Neuroeconomics, Neuroscience | 1 Comment »
The Toll of Discrimination on Black Women
Posted on November 11, 2009
From Eureka Alert: African-American women experiencing discrimination no longer feel masters of their own destiny Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women’s mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone to depression. These findings (1) by […]
Posted in Abstracts, Emotions | Leave a Comment »
The Motivated Situation of Inequality and Discrimination
Posted on September 23, 2009
Aaron C. Kay, Danielle Gaucher, Jennifer M. Peach, Kristin Laurin, Justin Friesen, Mark P. Zanna, and Steven J. Spencer have recently published their article, “Inequality, Discrimination, and the Power of the Status Quo: Direct Evidence for a Motivation to See the Way Things Are as the Way They Should Be” (97 Journal of Personality and […]
Posted in Abstracts, Ideology, Implicit Associations, Situationist Contributors, System Legitimacy, Video | Leave a Comment »
Why Are They So Biased?
Posted on July 22, 2009
Last week Sally Lehrman published an interesting op-ed, titled “Why are people of color presumed biased, and we are not?“ in the Oakland Tribune. Here are some excerpts. * * * On the first day of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, one senator after another demanded assurances the judge would not allow her background to […]
Posted in Ideology, Implicit Associations, Politics | 2 Comments »
