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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Situationism
Posted on January 15, 2011
This post was originally published on January 22, 2007. * * * Monday’s holiday provides an apt occasion to highlight the fact that, at least by my reckoning, Martin Luther King, Jr. was, among other things, a situationist. To be sure, King is most revered in some circles for quotations that are easily construed as […]
Posted in History, Ideology, System Legitimacy | 2 Comments »
Speaking Truth to the Situation
Posted on December 9, 2010
This week’s This American Life was titled “Last Man Standing,” which included three outstanding “stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up,” including: a story about the only Juror on the trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich who believed he was innocent of trying to sell […]
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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 »
Tamara Piety on Market Manipulation
Posted on September 18, 2010
In response to Adam Beneforado’s terrific post this week, “Breaking Up Is Easy to Do: When Corporations Dump Consumers,” Situationist friend Tamara Piety wrote another excellent comment, a portion of which we’ve posted below. * * * To me, one of most offensive examples of this type of channeling is the price discrimination practice involved in […]
Posted in Behavioral Economics, Choice Myth, Life, Marketing, Public Relations, Situationist Contributors | 1 Comment »
Situationism in the Blogosphere – July, Part II
Posted on August 27, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during July 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Jury Room: “Deliberations: Jurors think and feel as they make decisions” “Our legal system assumes jurors will make their decisions without bias. This assumption […]
Posted in Abstracts, Blogroll | 2 Comments »
The Situation of Terror Babies
Posted on August 17, 2010
Over the past few days, allegations of a frightening new terrorist plot have emerged. Indeed, at the end of last week, Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle and Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert appeared on different editions of “Anderson Cooper 360” to sound the alarm that the Obama administration has been ignoring a critical threat to the […]
Posted in Emotions, Entertainment, Illusions, Politics, Situationist Contributors | 2 Comments »
Shirley Sherrod and the Situation of Racial Discourse
Posted on July 27, 2010
Situationist friend Charles Ogletree and Johanna Wald had a terrific editorial this Sunday, titled “After Shirley Sherrod, We all Need To Slow Down and Listen,” in which, among other things, they discuss the relevance of research by Situationist Contributors Mahzarin Banaji and Jerry Kang. Here are some excerpts. * * * President Obama has called […]
Posted in Distribution, History, Implicit Associations, Morality, Politics, Situationist Contributors | 2 Comments »
Situationist Political Science and the Situation of Voters
Posted on July 14, 2010
Joe Keohane wrote an outstanding article, “How Facts Backfire: Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains,” for the Boston Globe last week. Here are some excerpts. * * * It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Conflict, Cultural Cognition, Deep Capture, Education, Ideology, Naive Cynicism, Politics | Leave a Comment »
The Situation of ‘Common Sense’
Posted on July 6, 2010
On April 15, I had the pleasure of participating in a Collaborative training symposium on Implicit Bias and Eyewitness Identification, conducted for Connecticut prosecutors and public defenders. I spoke on the topic of implicit bias, a core research interest. It was an interesting conversation, and the engagement was intelligent, thoughtful, and public minded. Afterwards, Chris Nolan, […]
Posted in Implicit Associations, Naive Cynicism, Situationist Contributors | 9 Comments »
Sarah Jones on Stereotypes and Stereotyping
Posted on June 26, 2010
We highly recommend a 13-minute podcast in which Sarah Jones (a Tony Award winning playwright and performer) reflects on morals, racial stereotyping, and the perils of West Coast jaywalking. You can listen to the podcast (recorded live at The Moth Main Stage) here. * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Why […]
Posted in Entertainment, Implicit Associations, Podcasts | 1 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 […]
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The Situation of Sexism
Posted on May 17, 2010
Shankar Vedantam, author of the outstanding book, “The Hidden Brain,” excerpted a brief section of that book for TheAge.com. Here are some excerpts from that excerpt. * * * . . . . The existence of unconscious sexism can be scientifically proved in laboratory experiments. . . . Bias is much harder to demonstrate scientifically […]
Posted in Book, Distribution, Education, Life, Neuroscience | 4 Comments »
Elena Kagan’s Situation
Posted on May 10, 2010
In today’s New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Katharine Q. Seelye and Lisa W. Foderaro have an illuminating biography of Supreme Court Nominee (and Situationist friend and supporter) Elena Kagan. Here are the opening paragraphs of that story. * * * She was a creature of Manhattan’s liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, […]
Posted in Education, Events, Law, Politics | 3 Comments »
The Situation of the Health Care Debate
Posted on March 14, 2010
A Harvard Law student wrote a worthwhile post on Law & Mind a few weeks ago about some of the dynamics behind the health care debate. Here is an excerpt. * * * How should an institution inspire collective action? What’s the best strategy? The conventional wisdom is that to solve a collective problem, the […]
Posted in Conflict, Politics, Public Policy, Situationist Contributors | 1 Comment »
Situationism in the News
Posted on February 22, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of the Situationist news over the last several weeks. * * * From Miller-Mccun: “Get Politically Engaged, Get Happy?” “As the United States gears up for midyear elections, getting involved in a campaign might not only be a great opportunity to participate in democracy — […]
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Race and Implicit American-ness
Posted on February 8, 2010
In case you missed it, here is a worthwhile CNN International interview of Thierry Devos and Debbie Ma about their study, titled “Is Barack Obama American Enough to Be the Next President?: The Role of Ethnicity and National Identity in American Politics” (pdf here). The study’s introduction is as follows. * * * Recent research […]
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