The Situational Source of Illusions
From National Geographic’s Brain Games:
Interactive experiments, illusions, and mind tricks reveal the inner workings of the ultimate supercomputer—the human brain.
Review many more Situationist posts containing illusions here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - January 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Illusions Video Source Type: blogs
Rising Star Interviews – Aaron Kay
This article was directly inspired by my earliest research in graduate school and now motivates much of my current research. As such, it connects, via one common mechanism, issues I used to work on to issues I am now interested in. So it feels something like a unifying paper to my young career, both temporally and thematically.
Related Situationist posts:
Aaron Kay, “The Psychological Power of the Status Quo”
Another Review of “Ideology, Psychology, and Law”
The Imagined Ideological Divide
The Situation of Ideology – Part I
Ideology is Back
Ideology Shaping Situation of Vice Versa
The Great Attributional Div...
Source: The Situationist - January 24, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Distribution Ideology Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Situationism
This post was originally published on January 22, 2007.
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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 dispositionist, such as: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Taken alone, as it often is, that sentence seems to set a low bar. Indeed, some Americans contend t...
Source: The Situationist - January 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jon Hanson Tags: History Ideology System Legitimacy Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Source Type: blogs
Sad News: Richard Hackman Dies at 72
From Harvard Crimson: (obituary of Richard Hackman, who was a generous and thoughtful contributor to the efforts at Harvard Law School to bridge law and the mind sciences):
Over a career spanning nearly half a century, psychology professor J. Richard Hackman garnered widespread esteem and accolades for pioneering the study of team dynamics. But on the side, Hackman quietly devoted countless hours to improving one team in particular—the Harvard women’s basketball squad, for which he volunteered as an honorary coach.
Those who knew him say that gestures like these defined Hackman, who died on Jan. 8 in Boston followi...
Source: The Situationist - January 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Habits
From Goodlife Project:
Jonathan Fields, interviews New York Times investigative reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg.
Related Situationist Posts:
The Situation of Good Habits
The Situation of How We Became Fat – Part 2
The Situation of Self-Regulation
The Situation of Willpower
Investing in Vice
The Science of Addiction, The Myth of Choice
The Situational Effects of Food Advertising
The Marketing Situation of Doritos (FTC Complaint)
The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - January 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Marketing Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology
From PsychCentral (Judy Crook reviews new book edited by Kay Deaux and Mark Snyder):
What’s the difference between personality psychology and social psychology? In essence, personality psychology focuses on the person, while social psychology focuses on the situation—how people act in different situations, or how situations affect individuals. In exploring how and why the two fields might be integrated, The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology recounts the history of each subfield, discusses different approaches each takes to research topics, and analyzes the benefits that might come from integrating t...
Source: The Situationist - January 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Book Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Michael McCann Taking Situationist Sports to UNH
Congratulations are in order to Michael McCann (who, among other things, is the co-founder of this blog). The University of New Hampshire Law School just announced that they are launching the Sports & Entertainment Law Institute under the direction of Michael McCann, who will be moving from Vermont Law School where he directed the Sports Law Institute. Here’s the announcement from UNH.
Noted sports law expert Michael McCann will join the University of New Hampshire School of Law this fall to launch a new Sports and Entertainment Law Institute. McCann has been a visiting professor at UNH Law during the 2012-13...
Source: The Situationist - January 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Situationist Contributors Situationist Sports Source Type: blogs
Jeremy Bailenson on Virtual Reality
From Pacific Standard (a brief excerpt from a long, worthwhile article about the work of Jeremy Bailenson):
A few years ago, a research psychologist at Stanford University named Jeremy Bailenson effectively proved the soundness of Anderson’s recruitment methods (pdf). A week before the 2004 presidential election, Bailenson asked a bunch of prospective voters to look at photographs of George W. Bush and John Kerry and then give their opinions of the candidates. What the voters didn’t know was that the photographs had been doctored: each voter’s own visage had been subtly morphed together with that of one of the cand...
Source: The Situationist - January 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Book Illusions Video Source Type: blogs
