Systemic Justice Project in The Globe
Below are excerpts from Courtney Humphries’s superb Boston Globe article about the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School (cartoon by Sam Washburn and photo by Justin Saglio, both for the Globe):
From the first day, it’s clear that law professor Jon Hanson’s new Systemic Justice class at Harvard Law School is going to be different from most classes at the school. Hanson, lanky, bespectacled, and affable, cracks jokes as he paces the room. He refers to the class of 50-odd students as a community; he even asks students to brainstorm a name for the group. But behind the informality is a serious purpose: Hans...
Source: The Situationist - February 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J Tags: Education Law Legal Theory Public Policy Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
Stanford Prison Experiment – The Movie
From ETonline:
The Stanford Prison Experiment, which premiered this week at Sundance to mostly positive reviews, is not always an easy film to watch.
Much of the action takes place in barren 6-foot-wide hallway. The characters–seemingly normal and well-adjusted Stanford students recruited to participate in a landmark 1971 study about the psychology of imprisonment–take their role-playing as prisoner and guard to extremes, turning power-hungry, violent and occasionally sadistic. The “grown-ups,” led by researcher Philip Zimbardo (played by Billy Crudup), watch a live feed of the action from a nearby ...
Source: The Situationist - February 2, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Stanford Prison Experiment – The Movie
From ETonline:
The Stanford Prison Experiment, which premiered this week at Sundance to mostly positive reviews, is not always an easy film to watch.
Much of the action takes place in barren 6-foot-wide hallway. The characters–seemingly normal and well-adjusted Stanford students recruited to participate in a landmark 1971 study about the psychology of imprisonment–take their role-playing as prisoner and guard to extremes, turning power-hungry, violent and occasionally sadistic. The “grown-ups,” led by researcher Philip Zimbardo (played by Billy Crudup), watch a live feed of the action from a nearby ...
Source: The Situationist - February 2, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Video 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 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: JH Tags: History Ideology System Legitimacy Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Source Type: blogs
Systemic Justice Blog
There will be an official announcement regarding our new organization, The Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School, in January. That new organization will be collaborating with several other organizations, including the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School.
For now, we wanted to alert readers that, at least for the time being, blog posts related to both projects can be found at The Systemic Justice Blog. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Distributional Preferences
An article of interest in the latest issue of Psychological Science:
Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences, by Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Kristjen B. Lundberg, Aaron C. Kay B. Keith Payne (November, 2014).
Introduction
Economic inequality is at historically high levels and rising. The United States has the highest level of inequality of all industrialized countries, with the wealthiest 1% of Americans owning nearly 50% of the country’s wealth (Keister & Moller, 2000; Wolff, 2002). Greater economic inequality within a society is associated with a variety of problems, including lower subjective well-being, sho...
Source: The Situationist - December 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Abstracts Distribution Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving as “System Justification”
This post was first published on November 21, 2007.
Thanksgiving has many associations — struggling Pilgrims, crowded airports, autumn leaves, heaping plates, drunken uncles, blowout sales, and so on. At its best, though, Thanksgiving is associated with, well, thanks giving. The holiday provides a moment when many otherwise harried individuals leading hectic lives decelerate just long enough to muster some gratitude for their harvest. Giving thanks — acknowledging that we, as individuals, are not the sole determinants of our own fortunes seems an admirable, humble, and even situationist practice, worthy of its...
Source: The Situationist - November 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: JH Tags: Altruism History Ideology System Legitimacy Aaron Kay John Jost System Justification Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Jennifer Eberhardt Wins MacArthur!
Congratulations to Situationist friend, Jennifer Eberhardt who is one of this year’s MacArthur Grant winners.
Eberhardt investigates the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations between race and crime.
To read numerous Situationist posts about Eberhardt’s research or presentations at Harvard Law School click here. To watch similar videos, visit the video libraries on the Project on Law and Mind Sciences website (here). (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - September 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Law Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Trent Smith on Deep Capture and Obesity – SALMS Talk Friday!
The Economics of Information, Deep Capture, and the Obesity Debate
When: Friday 09/12/14 – 12-1pm
Where: WCC 1023
Are consumers susceptible to manipulation by large corporations? Or are consumers basically rational, able to decide for themselves what to buy and how to live? This lecture will argue that these seemingly contradictory views of the American consumer are not mutually exclusive, and in fact follow directly from economic models of imperfect information. Examples of U.S. food industry practices, both historical and in the ongoing public debate over the causes of the obesity epidemic, serve to illustr...
Source: The Situationist - September 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events SALMS Source Type: blogs
Ideology, Psychology, and Free Speech
From Today’s New York Times, here is a brief excerpt from an article about a revealing new study, co-authored by Lee Epstein.
In cases raising First Amendment claims, a new study found, Justice Scalia voted to uphold the free speech rights of conservative speakers at more than triple the rate of liberal ones. In 161 cases from 1986, when he joined the court, to 2011, he voted in favor of conservative speakers 65 percent of the time and liberal ones 21 percent.
He is not alone. “While liberal justices are over all more supportive of free speech claims than conservative justices,” the study found, “the votes of ...
Source: The Situationist - May 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Ideology Law Source Type: blogs
The Gendered (Lookist) Situation of Venture Capital
From Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, here are excerpts of an article by Carmen Nobel about research co-authored by HBS’s Alison Wood Brooks.
If you’re in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy.
A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. Attractive men are the most persuasive pitchers of all, the studies show.
The findings are detailed in the paper Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men, published in the March 2...
Source: The Situationist - May 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Francis Shen
Just a reminder that SALMS will be hosting a lunchtime speaker event tomorrow:
Professor Francis Shen will be speaking to us about the intersection of neuroscience and the law. This area of scholarship often delves into questions of mental illness, drug rehabilitation, and mental privacy, and other issues of mind. For those looking to learn more about this branch of legal scholarship, this lunch should be a good first look.
When: Monday 3/31/14 12-1pm
Where: WCC 1010
Free Lunch?: Of course
For an example of Francis Shen’s more recent work, here is a link to a recent article: http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/upl...
Source: The Situationist - March 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Legal Theory Neuroscience SALMS Source Type: blogs
