Upcoming SALMS Talks
Francis Shen
U. Minnesota Law School
March 31st
-The Intersection of neuroscience and the law
Joshua Greene
Harvard College Psychology
April 18th
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Stay tuned for more details. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - March 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events SALMS Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Criminal Defense
An op-ed by Situationist friend, Sam Wheeler in (Talking Points):
On November 27, 1770, John Adams began the most important trial of his legal career. His clients were eight British soldiers who, when confronted by an angry gathering of Boston patriots, fired into the crowd, killing five. The soldiers were accused of murder and threatened with the death penalty. Adams was a patriot, openly and adamantly opposed to British occupation of the colonies, with no love of the British army. He took the case, which he called “one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country,” because in this nation, even before its ...
Source: The Situationist - March 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Law Politics Source Type: blogs
Situationist Torts at Harvard Law School
From The Harvard Law Record (an article by Sara Murphy, Jessica Ranucci, Sean Cuddihy):
From the first day we marched into Professor Jon Hanson’s Torts class, it was clear that the course would not follow the traditional 1L torts syllabus. Professor Hanson, who is the Alfred Smart Professor of Law and Director of the Project on Law and the Mind Sciences, is well-known for his unusual course structure and material. He was charged with teaching us Torts last semester, but what we learned transcended the bounds of the traditional 1L curriculum. Professor Hanson teaches what he calls “situationist torts,” an approach to ...
Source: The Situationist - February 12, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Legal Theory Source Type: blogs
Immaculate Perception?
Recently, I did a TEDx talk on implicit bias titled “Immaculate Perception?” It’s only about 13 minutes long, which made it quite a challenge. Enjoy!
Here’s a guide to my related scholarship. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - February 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jerry Kang Tags: Implicit Associations Law Social Psychology Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Increasing Role of Pscyhology in Law
From the latest edition of Observer, an article by David Halpern:
When governments want advice on the likely impact of their policies, they traditionally turn to economists. Psychologists have been less in demand. The reasons are understandable: Economists have seemed to offer relatively clear and well developed models for predicting behavior, notably “expected utility theory.” In contrast, the lessons from psychology have often seemed less clear-cut, no matter how interesting or suggestive they may have been.
This situation is now changing. Officials are recognizing that their policies may stand or fall on social, c...
Source: The Situationist - January 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Law Public Policy 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, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jon Hanson Tags: History Ideology System Legitimacy Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Source Type: blogs
Mikki Hebl on Interpersonal Discrimination
Related Situationist posts:
Judge Nancy Gertner on the Situation of Discrimination Claims
Liability for Unconscious Discrimination?
Krieger on the Situation of Discrimination in France
What Are the Legal Implications of Implicit Biases?
Colorblinded Wages – Abstract
Firefighters and the Situation of “Merit”
The Situation of Situation in Employment Discrimination Law – Abstract (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - December 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Law Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Paul Bloom on the Situational Effects of Religion
Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University and contributing author of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology, talks about his article “Religion, Morality, Evolution.” How did religion evolve? What effect does religion have on our moral beliefs and moral actions? These questions are related, as some scholars propose that religion has evolved to enhance altruistic behavior toward members of one’s group. But, Bloom argues, while religion has powerfully good moral effects and powerfully bad moral effects, these are due to aspects of religion that are shared by other human pract...
Source: The Situationist - December 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Altruism Conflict Ideology Morality 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, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jon Hanson Tags: Altruism History Ideology System Legitimacy Aaron Kay John Jost System Justification Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Mahzarin Banaji on “Group Love”
From Yale News (by Phoebe Kimmelman):
On Thursday evening, Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji delivered a talk entitled “Group Love” where she demonstrated that the audience held an implicit bias for Yale over Princeton.
Banaji, who worked as a professor of psychology at Yale from 1986-2002 before taking a similar post at Harvard, focused in her talk on how group affiliations, or lack thereof, affect the ways in which we see the world and interact with others. In her research, Banaji has helped bring Freudian theories of the subconscious in the psychology laboratory to be empirically tested.
University President Pete...
Source: The Situationist - November 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Emotions Implicit Associations Morality Neuroscience Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
“The Future of Equality” ACS Conference – This Weekend
The American Constitution Society Northeast Regional Student Convening will bring together lawyers and law students from across the Northeast to hear leading practitioners, government officials, judges, and academics discuss a progressive vision for the future of equality across a number of salient policy issues. Learn more here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - November 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Politics Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
Eldar Shafir – Living Under Scarcity
From TEDxMidAtlantic, 2011. Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His research focuses on decision-making, and on issues related to behavioral economics, with an emphasis on empirical studies of how people make decisions in situations of conflict and uncertainty.
Related Situationist posts:
The Situation of Poor Choices
Rich Brains, Poor Brains?
Poverty and Delinquency
The Situational Consequences of Poverty on Brains
Inequality and the Unequal Situat...
Source: The Situationist - November 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Book Choice Myth Distribution Education Video Source Type: blogs
Nalini Ambady, Stanford psychology professor, dies at 54
By Bjorn Carey (Stanford News)
Nalini Ambady, a Stanford professor of psychology, died Oct. 28 after a long battle with leukemia. Her passing followed a yearlong, worldwide effort by family, friends and students to find a bone marrow donor match. She was 54.
A distinguished social psychologist, Ambady was well known for her research showing that people can form accurate first impressions about others based only on seconds-long observations of their nonverbal behavior.
“Thin slices,” as these quick impressions are known, are now a staple of social science textbooks, and were popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in hi...
Source: The Situationist - November 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Natasha Schvey on Obesity in the Courtroom – Today!
When: Friday 11/01/13 12-1pm
Where: WCC 2012
Today, join Section 6′s Ninja Tortles and the Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) for a talk by Natasha Schvey on bias against overweight defendants in the courtroom. Schvey, a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Yale University, has focused her research on obesity, weight stigma, binge eating, and eating in response to negative affect. She argues that bias against the overweight should be addressed in the legal system through means such as juror selection, jury instructions, and anti-discrimination legislation.
The talk will be held at noon in WCC...
Source: The Situationist - November 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events SALMS Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
