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Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Experience and Memory
Posted on April 23, 2010
From TedTalks: “Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.” * * * * * * To sample some related Situationist […]
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The Century of Dispositionism – Part III
Posted on March 2, 2010
From BBC Website : Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. * * * To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may […]
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The Century of Dipositionism – Part II
Posted on February 18, 2010
From BBC Website : Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. * * * To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may […]
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The Century of Dipositionism – Part I
Posted on February 13, 2010
From Wikipedia: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings. His influence on the twentieth century is generally considered profound. The series describes the ways public relations and politicians have utilized Freud’s theories during the last 100 years for the “engineering of consent.” * * * Freud […]
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Cupid’s Situation
Posted on February 7, 2010
One week before Valentine’s Day, Jessica Pauline Ogilvie published an interesting article, titled “Scientists Try To Measure Love,” for the Los Angeles Times. Here are some excerpts. * * * Whatever its reason, there can be little doubt — even from a scientific standpoint — about the potent feelings that being in love elicits. Arthur […]
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Situationism in the News
Posted on January 30, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of the Situationist news over the last several weeks. * * * From BBC News: “What’s my brain’s motivation?” “For an actor, the performance conditions weren’t exactly ideal: flat on her back in a large machine, under strict instructions to lie as still as possible, […]
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The Situation of Kindness
Posted on December 9, 2009
Yamin Anwar wrote an interesting press release about recent and ongoing research at University of California, Berkeley suggesting that the kindest, and not just the fittest, survive. Here are some excerpts. * * * Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a […]
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The Situation of Becoming Happier
Posted on October 8, 2009
From BigThink: “For however elusive happiness is to define, there are very specific things people can do each day that are proven to increase happiness: Tal Ben Shahar has spent his career studying them. He gave Big Think several practical happiness tips, including changing your calendar, buying a notebook, and changing your approach to car […]
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The Situation of Caring
Posted on October 1, 2009
From the University of Rochester (press release): Want to be a better person? Commune with nature. Paying attention to the natural world not only makes you feel better, it makes you behave better, finds a new study to be published October 1 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. “Stopping to experience our natural surroundings […]
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The Situational Consequences of Uncertainty
Posted on September 24, 2009
This spring, Situationist friend, Dan Gilbert published another illuminating and entertaining op-ed, titled “What We Don’t Know Makes Us Nervous,” (New York Times, May 21, 2009). Here’s an excerpt. * * * Seventy-six years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took to the inaugural dais and reminded a nation that its recent troubles “concern, thank God, only […]
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The Situation of Homogeneity
Posted on July 20, 2009
This summer, I have finally gotten around to reading Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge and, unsurprisingly, there is much in the book that parallels situationist work. Indeed, many (if not most) of the referenced social psychology experiments and dynamics should already be familiar to readers of this website. One paragraph that I came […]
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What Is Welfare? – Abstract
Posted on June 4, 2009
John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur posted another interesting paper, “Welfare as Happiness,” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * In the fields of law, economics, and philosophy, the leading conception of human welfare is preference-satisfaction — getting what one wants. An important rival is an objective list approach to ethics — possessing […]
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Getting a Grip on Climate Change
Posted on May 25, 2009
Last month, Adam Corner wrote a worthwhile editorial, “Time to Gamble on a Post-Carbon World,” for the Guardian. Here are some excerpts. * * * That we engage in tactics of diversion, avoidance, and denial has been documented extensively on these pages. But as if our natural tendency to stick our heads in the sand […]
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