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Nalini Ambady Needs Our Help
Posted on April 2, 2013
Social psychologists have launched an international campaign to save the life of Nalini Ambady, a Stanford University social psychologist and Situationist friend who is battling leukemia and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. To find out what you can do, visit Help Nalini Now. Please also read Sam Sommers post: Point. Click. Save this Woman’s […]
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This Year’s SALMS Speaker Series.
Posted on September 2, 2010
Mark your calendar! The list of speakers for the 2010-2011 academic year has been posted on the SALMS (Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences) website. The current list of speakers is as follows: Jim Sidanius Daniel Dennett Drazen Prelec Dan Kahan [Situationist Contributor] Sam Sommers Nalini Ambady Patrick Shin John Jost [Situationist Contributor] For […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – November, Part III
Posted on December 21, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during November 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Neuronarrative: “Thinking You’re in Control Can Lead to an Impulsive Demise” “[…] A new study in the journal Psychological Science investigated the dynamics underlying […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere, November 2009 – Part II
Posted on December 3, 2009
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during November 2009 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Nicholas Herrera Psychology Today Blog: “Attributional Biases and Violent Soccer Play” “On November 5, 2009, during a soccer match between the University of New […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – February 2009
Posted on February 20, 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 3 Quarks Daily: “Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates a Universal Mapping of Numbers onto Space” “The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation […]
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The Situation of Resolutions
Posted on January 7, 2009
Just one week out into 2009, and many of us are already tripping up on our resolutions. It’s another case of our disposition being weaker than our situation. Here are a couple of excerpts that shed some light on the interior situation of our resolve. * * * From Sam Sommers’ excellent post “A […]
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A Situationist Considers the Implications of Simpson Sentencing
Posted on December 18, 2008
Sam Sommers continues to write super situationist posts over on the Psychology Today blog. Here are excerpts from his recent post, titled “Whither O.J.?,” offering his reflections on reactions to the O.J. Simpson trials. * * * Today’s the day that O.J. Simpson finds out his prison sentence for his recent convictions for kidnapping, armed […]
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Praise for The Situationist
Posted on February 23, 2007
Since the The Situationist launched on January 26, 2007, we have received many kind words for which we are grateful. Here is a sampling: * * * The #1 Psychology and Neuroscience Blog of 2012 (of the top 30). ~ Online Psychology (1/29/2013) one of “40 Superb Psychology Blogs” ~ Psyblog (9/15/2012) “The Situationist – Jon […]
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The Pretense of Colorblindness
Posted on February 24, 2012
From Working Knowledge: In trying to prevent discrimination and prejudice, many companies adopt a strategy of “colorblindness”—actively trying to ignore racial differences when enacting policies and making organizational decisions. The logic is simple: if we don’t even notice race, then we can’t act in a racist manner. The problem is that most of us naturally […]
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