2013 PLMS Conference – Save the Date!

On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. For more information, visit the conference website here. Here’s a draft of the day’s schedule. Tentative Schedule 9:30 am – Coffee, tea, and pastries 9:50 – 10:10 – Welcome 10:15 – 10:40 – Noam Chomsky 10:50 – 11:15 – Francesca Gino “Getting Sidetracked: How we are vulnerable to manipulation” Subtle and seemingly irrelevant factors often influence our behavior in ways we fail to anticipate. In this talk, Francesca Gino will discuss a few of these factors and explain how they could be used strategically by others to change people’s behavior. 11:20 – 11:45 – Susan Linn “The Deepest Capture: Children, Commercialism and the Corporate Take Over of Childhood” We are all vulnerable to marketing but given their immature judgment and developing brains, children are even more vulnerable. The consequences of screen-saturated, commercialized childhood are dire for the health of children, the environment, and democracy—marketing sells habits and behaviors as well as products. Susan Linn describes the depth and breadth of the “kids market” and why the movement to reclaim childhood from corporate marketers is so important. 11:50 – 12:05 Q&A LUNCH 12:35 – 1:00 – Stuart Ew...
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