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Marines Defiling Dead Taliban – Might Recent Neuroscience Shed Light?
Posted on January 11, 2012
From The Daily Princetonian: Failure in the part of the brain that controls social functions could explain why regular people might commit acts of ruthless violence, according to new study by a University research team. A particular network in the brain is normally activated when we meet someone, empathize with him and think about his […]
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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 […]
Posted in Life, Positive Psychology, Situationist Contributors | Leave a Comment »
Can The Law Go Upstream?
Posted on December 22, 2011
Roger Magnusson, Lawrence O. Gostin, and David Studdert recently posted their paper, “Can Law Improve Prevention and Treatment of Cancer?” on SSRN: The December 2011 issue of Public Health (the Journal of the Royal Society for Public Health) contains a symposium entitled: Legislate, Regulate, Litigate? Legal approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer. This […]
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Diane Rosenfeld Speaks Today at HLS
Posted on November 30, 2011
Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) Speakers Series: Diane Rosenfeld: “Penn State, Intervention, and a Theory of Patriarchal Violence” 11/30/201 Join SALMS for the final event of our Fall Speakers Series, when HLS’s Diane Rosenfeld will present on “Penn State, Intervention, and a Theory of Patriarchal Violence” on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, at […]
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Responding to Law and Economics: Critiques and Alternatives
Posted on October 17, 2011
The American Constitution Society of Harvard Law School are sponsoring a panel discussion with Situationist Contributor Jon Hanson, Duncan Kennedy, and James Hackney. Here’s a description: Many law students find that law and economics is a pervasive and seductive way of tying legal issues to the real world. But what are its limits? And what […]
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The Neuro-Situation of Wins and Losses
Posted on October 10, 2011
From Montreal Gazette: A new National Hockey League season is upon us, Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing and the National Football League’s regular season has been in session for about a month. As you fixate on your television, watching every move of your favourite athletes and longing for that great play or […]
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Comparative Psychology: Cephalopods
Posted on September 29, 2011
In a previous post I discussed my struggles with anthropocentrism — and my satisfaction in having it thoroughly shaken by a short video on the otherworldly skin of certain octopuses. After mentioning it to a friend, he pointed me to two other videos of cephalopods engaging in quite shocking (and amazing) behavior — and, it […]
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Dr. Steven Hyman at Harvard Law Tomorrow
Posted on September 26, 2011
Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) Speakers Series: Dr. Steven E. Hyman, “Addiction as a Window into Volition” Tuesday, 9/27, 12-1 pm, Pound 101 SALMS serves lunch: Free Burritos! How should the law confront the “choices” of an addict? Though neuroscience research into addiction has advanced dramatically, few lessons have been incorporated into […]
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The Situation of the Inequality Getting Inequalitier
Posted on September 1, 2011
From PBSNewsHour: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a […]
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Brain and Blame
Posted on August 11, 2011
From The Atlantic (by David Eagleman): On the steamy first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation deck, lugging with him a footlocker full of guns and ammunition. At the top, he killed […]
Posted in Emotions, Law, Morality, Neuroscience | Leave a Comment »
Colorblind? Really?
Posted on July 12, 2011
From Sister Blog, Law and Mind (by HLS student, Rachel Funk): Aunt Vivian: Gee, when Janice described him she didn’t mention that he was…tall. Not that I have a problem with people who are…tall. Uncle Lester: My cousin used to date a girl who was…tall. Uncle Phil: Heck, the boy go to a predominantly…tall school. […]
Posted in Ideology, Implicit Associations, Life, System Legitimacy | 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Emotions, Evolutionary Psychology, Ideology, Life, Morality, Politics, Video | Leave a Comment »
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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Situational Sources of the Holocaust
Posted on May 6, 2011
From the Harvard Gazette: The table slab was cold and hard beneath 6-year-old Irene Hizme as doctors and nurses took measurements and blood samples. She didn’t know what was happening to her, and by the time it was all over, she wouldn’t care. She was found lying nearly comatose on the ground by a woman […]
Posted in Education, History, Ideology, Morality, Video | 1 Comment »
