Ideology, Purity, and Environment
From UC Berkeley Press:
When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that such viewpoints can be changed after all, when the messages about the need to be better stewards of the land are couched in terms of fending off threats to the “purity” and “sanctity” of Earth and our bodies.
A UC Berkeley study has found that while people who identified themselves as conservatives tend to be less concerned about the environment than their liberal counterpar...
Source: The Situationist - February 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Environment Ideology Source Type: blogs
Max Bazerman Speaks at HLS – Thursday!
Thursday, February 7, 12-1 p.m.
Wasserstein 1015
Professor Max Bazerman (HBS)
“Bounded Ethicality”
Sponsor: Student Association for Law & Mind Sciences
Professor Bazerman will present his recent research on ethical behavior. He argues that, in contrast to the search for the few “bad apples,” the majority of unethical events occur as the result of ordinary and predictable psychological processes. As a result, even good people engage in unethical behavior, without their own awareness, on a regular basis.
Free Thai food!
Learn more about Professor Bazerman’s work here.
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Source: The Situationist - February 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Choice Myth Events Morality SALMS Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Social Media and Behavioral Economics Conference
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, scholars from across Harvard University will join social media experts from Facebook, Twitter, Socialflow and Microsoft Research, for a conference on social media, theory and practice, and its potential effects on voting behavior, electricity consumption, pro-social behavior and privacy.
The event, “Social Media and Behavioral Economics Conference,” sponsored by Harvard Law School’s new Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, will be held at Harvard Law School’s Wasserstein Hall.
The event is free and open to the public and will also be webcast live, beginning at 9 a.m. on the d...
Source: The Situationist - February 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Events Source Type: blogs
Amy Cuddy on Body Language
Situationist friend, Amy Cuddy, delivers a fascinating TedTalk on how body language affects how others see us and on how we see ourselves. Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
Related Situationist posts:
The Embodied Situation of Power
The Situational Power of Appearance and Posture
The Situation of Imitation and Mimickry
Embodied Rationality
The Situation of Body Image
The Magnetism of Beautiful People
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Source: The Situationist - February 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Embodied Cognition Emotions Situationist Sports Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain
This post (authored by Adam Benforado) was originally published on February 4, 2007.
As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold is a sporting event.It shouldn’t be too hard: after all, there on the screen will be the field, Brian Urlacher stretching out his quads, Peyton Manning tossing a football, referees in their freshly-starched zebra uniforms milling about.Yes, I’ll think to myself, this has all the makings of a football game.
How foolish.
The Super Bow...
Source: The Situationist - February 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Emotions Entertainment Food and Drug Law Implicit Associations Life Marketing Situationist Sports Source Type: blogs
The #1 Psychology Blog of 2012
We are happy to report that Best Online Psychology Schools just published their top 30 psychology blogs of 2012, and placed The Situationist at #1.
The broad field of psychology has numerous approaches, methods, and theories–some say as many of each as there are practitioners. There are numerous high quality blogs operated by psychology professionals from every facet of the field. This list consists of thirty of the most prominent blogs on the topics of psychology and the closely related field of neuroscience. The neuroscience blogs all have a psychology bent to them, explaining the relationship between the inner working...
Source: The Situationist - February 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Rising Star Interviews – Dana Carney
In 2011, APS published a series of “Rising Star” interviews, including several of scholars who are Situationist Contributors or good friends of blog. We will highlight some of those interviews in weeks ahead. Here is the interview of Situationist friend, Dana Carney.
What does your research focus on?
I am interested in the incredible power of tiny, ordinary, nonverbal cues.
What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
I was drawn to this research because of how diagnostic these cues can be when trying to make inferences about others’ mental states.
Who were/are your mentors or psycho...
Source: The Situationist - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Ideology Implicit Associations Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
