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Posted on May 14, 2009
A student in my Business Organizations course just sent me a link to an interesting four-part BBC series, “The Century of the Self,” that was made in 2002 and is likely to be of interest to Situationist readers, particularly in the wake of the recent economic troubles. The set of films considers the emergence of […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – February Part III
Posted on April 4, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during February 2009. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Frontal Cortex: “The Color of Creativity” “The brain is like a Swiss Army knife, stuffed full of different mental tools that are well suited […]
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Situationism in the News
Posted on February 16, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of the Situationist news items of February 2009. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Boston Globe: “Aging has its benefits” “In the 1973 film “The Way We Were,” Barbra Streisand sings a haunting ballad about memories and aging. “What’s […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – November 2008
Posted on January 14, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during November 2008. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From BPS Research Digest blog: “Dazzled by digits: how we’re wooed by product specifications” “From megapixels and gigabytes to calorie counts and sun protection factors, […]
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Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology
Posted on November 12, 2008
From Ted Talks: Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? Martin Seligman founded the field of positive psychology in 2000, and has devoted his […]
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Political Psychology in 2008
Posted on August 5, 2008
Sharon Begley has a very interesting article, “How Our Unconscious Votes,” in HealthNewsDigest.com. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Give the democrats of West Virginia points for honesty. As Hillary Clinton romped to a landslide of 67 to 26 percent over Barack Obama in the primary, 20 percent of voters in exit polls said that […]
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The Situation of a Name
Posted on June 28, 2008
Robin Turner has an interesting article in Wales Online, titled “People’s names linked to self-esteem, says Welsh research.” We’ve pasted a few excerpts below. * * * What’s in a name? Future happiness, self-esteem and peace of mind, according to research carried out in a Welsh university. But Jochen Gebauer, lead author of a new […]
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The Situation of Civil Settlements – Abstract
Posted on June 26, 2008
John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur recently posted their fascinating article, “Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits” (forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * This paper examines the burgeoning psychological literature on happiness and hedonic adaptation (a person’s capacity to preserve or recapture her level […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – April (Part III)
Posted on May 27, 2008
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during April. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From In Mind: “Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach“ ” Have you ever thought about where your strong moral convictions (if any) come from? For […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – April (Part II)
Posted on May 19, 2008
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during April. (They are listed in alphabetical order by source.) * * * From Deliberations: “Lawyers: So Certain, So Wrong“ “We all assume that if we like something, the rest of the world is going to like it too […]
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