Daniel Simon’s Movie Perception Test
A movie perception test by Daniel Levin & Daniel Simons.
Review all the Situationist posts presenting or discussing illusions here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - October 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Illusions Source Type: blogs
Conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram
Yale Law School is hosting a conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram this Saturday. Unsurprisingly, many Situationist Contributors (Thomas Blass, Jon Hanson, Dan Kahan, and Tom Tyler) and Situationist friends (Phoebe Ellsworth, Doug Kysar, and Jaime Napier) will be participating. The conference agenda is below.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Yale Law School
Sponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund
9:00-9:30
Registration and Breakfast
9:30-10:00
Introduction
Peter Salovey, President of Yale University
10:00-11:00
The role of situational forces in shaping false confessions
Saul Kassin, Distinguished Professor of Psychol...
Source: The Situationist - October 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Classic Experiments Events Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Boston Magazine recognizes Michael McCann
Boston Magazine has released it’s “Best Boston Sports Personalities on Twitter” and Situationist Co-Founder & Contributor Michael McCann, who tweets @McCannSportsLaw, is on the list.
Boston Magazine described McCann as “a Massachusetts attorney who represented Maurice Clarett in his attempt to declare early for the NFL Draft, McCann is as reputable a source as there is on Aaron Hernandez’s trial and future prospects.” McCann is also the director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and a legal analyst and writer for Sports Illustr...
Source: The Situationist - October 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Source Type: blogs
Jon Hanson on Law and Mind Sciences – SALMS Talk Monday!
When: Monday 10/21/13 12-1pm
Where: WCC 1010
Professor Jon Hanson will kick off this year’s SALMS speaker series, discussing the significance of mind sciences for law.
Hanson is the Alfred Smart Professor of Law, Director of the Project on Law and Mind Sciences, and editor of the recent book, “Ideology, Psychology, and Law.”
Lunch will be provided. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - October 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events SALMS Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
Are Thoughts of Death Conducive to Humor?
From DeGruyter:
A New Study Shows an Increase in Humorous Creativity when Individuals are Primed with Thoughts of Death.
Humor is an intrinsic part of human experience. It plays a role in every aspect of human existence, from day-to-day conversation to television shows. Yet little research has been conducted to date on the psychological function of humor. In human psychology, awareness of the impermanence of life is just as prevalent as humor. According to the Terror Management Theory, knowledge of one’s own impermanence creates potentially disruptive existential anxiety, which the individual brings under control wi...
Source: The Situationist - October 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Ideology Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Legal theory must incorporate discoveries from biology and behavioral sciences
Some recent discoveries in evolutionary biology, ethology, neurology, cognitive psychology and behavioral economics impels us to rethink the very foundations of law if we want to answer many questions remain unanswered in legal theory. Where does our ability to interpret rules and think in terms of fairness in relation to others come from? Does the ability to reason about norms derive from certain aspects of our innate rationality and from mechanisms that were sculptured in our moral psychology by evolutionary processes?
Legal theory must take the complexity of the human mind into account
Any answer to these foundational ...
Source: The Situationist - October 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Fábio Almeida Tags: Legal Theory Morality Neuroscience Philosophy Criminal Law Cultural Cognition ethology Legal decision making psychology Source Type: blogs
A New Situationist Fellow – Fábio Almeida
We are happy to introduce a new Situationist Fellow, Fábio Almeida.
Fábio Portela L. Almeida is a 2003 graduate at Universidade de Brasília Law School in Brazil. After graduating, he worked as a lawyer and, in 2006, he has been working as a Clerk in the Brazilian Superior Court of Labour Law. He also earned a Master of Laws Degree in 2007 at the same university, where he wrote a dissertation about constitutional issues arising from religious teaching in Brazilian public schools, which was published as a book in 2008.
In 2011, he earned a M.Phil Degree at the Universidade de Brasília Department of Philosophy. His disser...
Source: The Situationist - October 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
2013 SPSP Awards
From SPSP Website:
September 18, 2013 – When you pass by a stranger in need of help, do you stop to lend a hand? Maybe not… A landmark 1973 study found that seminary students in a hurry were less likely to help someone in distress, even when they were on their way to deliver a talk on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. A co-author of that study and several other distinguished researchers are the recipients of the 2013 annual awards from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). The contributions of these scientists to personality and social psychology include furthering our understanding of how pers...
Source: The Situationist - October 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Ageism
From Princeton News, an overview of important work being done by Michael North and Situationist friend, Susan Fiske.
Michael North, a fifth-year graduate student in psychology at Princeton University, knew he was lucky to land a summer research position at the University of Michigan after he finished his bachelor’s degree there in 2006.
His task: Sit in a lab for two hours at a time and interview local residents — young and old — for a study on wisdom.
“When the professor told me this, I nodded and said OK, but as a 22-year-old kid I wasn’t really excited about sitting in a basement interviewing old p...
Source: The Situationist - October 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Distribution Life Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
The Good Feeling of Fast Thinking
Situationist Contributor Emily Pronin’s recent articles, When the mind races: Effects of thought speed on feeling and action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 283–288, was highlighted in a recent APS Observer column. Here is an excerpt containing a helpful overview of Pronin’s fascinating study and findings.
You wake up. Your phone blinks. You touch the screen, slide your finger, and chills shiver down your spine. “See me tomorrow,” says the email your boss sent at midnight. Your thoughts accelerate. “What does she want? Why did she write so late? Am I in trouble? The company is in t...
Source: The Situationist - October 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Emotions Positive Psychology Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
“Ordinary Men” in Evil Situations
A few excerpts from an outstanding 1992 New York Times book review by Walter Reich of Christopher Browning’s remarkable book, “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland“:
We know a lot about how the Germans carried out the Holocaust. We know much less about how they felt and what they thought as they did it, how they were affected by what they did, and what made it possible for them to do it. In fact, we know remarkably little about the ordinary Germans who made the Holocaust happen — not the desk murderers in Berlin, not the Eichmanns and Heydrichs, and not Hitler ...
Source: The Situationist - October 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Conflict History Ideology Morality Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Wegstock #19 – Dan Wegner
In 2011, a conference honoring the late Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
This is the last of the series, by Dan Wegner himself. Don’t miss it.
To review a collection of Situationist posts discussing Dan Wegner’s research, click here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - September 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Wegstock #18 – Jonathan Schooler
In 2011, a conference honoring the late Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
The talks are brief and are well worth watching. We are highlighting individual talks, roughly 15 minutes each, through August and September.
In his fascinating lecture, Jonathan Schooler discusses his fascinating research on mind wandering and meta-awareness and tells the story of how that research was influenced by Dan Wegner. Pay attention! The video is below.
To review a collection of Situationist posts discussing Dan Wegner’s research, click here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - September 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Wegstock #17 – Jamie Pennebaker
In 2011, a conference honoring the late Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
The talks are brief and are well worth watching. We are highlighting individual talks, roughly 15 minutes each, through August and September.
In his fascinating lecture, Jamie Pennebaker discusses . . . well, it’s a secret. Enjoy the function and the content words!
To review a collection of Situationist posts discussing Dan Wegner’s research, click here. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - September 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
