Wegstock #3 – John Haidt
In 2011, a conference honoring Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
Speakers include Dan Gilbert, Susan Fiske, Tim Wilson, Jon Haidt, Henk Aarts, Nick Epley, Bill Swann, Todd Heatherton, Thalia Wheatley, Ap Dijksterhuis, Jon Krosnick, Jerry Clore, Bill Crano, Robin Vallacher, Jamie Pennebaker, Jonathan Schooler and Dan Wegner.
The talks are brief and are well worth watching. We will highlight the individual talks, roughly 15 minutes each, over the next month.
In this video, John Haidt describes (quite hilariously at times) his research and how Dan Wegner helped to shape it.
To review a collection ...
Source: The Situationist - July 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Wegstock #2 – Susan Fiske
In 2011, a conference honoring Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
Speakers include Dan Gilbert, Susan Fiske, Tim Wilson, Jon Haidt, Henk Aarts, Nick Epley, Bill Swann, Todd Heatherton, Thalia Wheatley, Ap Dijksterhuis, Jon Krosnick, Jerry Clore, Bill Crano, Robin Vallacher, Jamie Pennebaker, Jonathan Schooler and Dan Wegner.
The talks are brief and are well worth watching. We will highlight the individual talks, roughly 15 minutes each, over the next month.
In this video, Situationist friend Susan Fiske describes aspects of her scholarship and how Dan Wegner inspired them.
To review a collection...
Source: The Situationist - July 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
Wegstock #1 – Dan Gilbert’s Opening Remarks
In 2011, a conference honoring Dan Wegner, “Wegstock,” was held at Harvard University.
Speakers include Dan Gilbert, Susan Fiske, Tim Wilson, Jon Haidt, Henk Aarts, Nick Epley, Bill Swann, Todd Heatherton, Thalia Wheatley, Ap Dijksterhuis, Jon Krosnick, Jerry Clore, Bill Crano, Robin Vallacher, Jamie Pennebaker, Jonathan Schooler and Dan Wegner.
The talks are brief and are well worth watching. We will highlight the individual talks, roughly 15 minutes each, over the next month.
In this video, Situationist friend Dan Gilbert opens the conference.
To review a collection of Situationist posts discussing Dan Wegner’s ...
Source: The Situationist - July 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Secret Pleasures (more on Dan Wegner’s Work)
This excerpt, which highlights some of the remarkable work by the late Dan Wegner, comes from an article written by Eric Jaffe in a 2006 edition of the APS’s Observer:
“Freud’s Fundamental Rule of Psychoanalysis was for patients to be completely open with a therapist no matter how silly or embarrassing the thought,” says Anita Kelly, a researcher at the University of Notre Dame who published one of the first books on the formal study of secrets, The Psychology of Secrets, in 2002.
Only since the late 1980s and early 1990s have researchers like Daniel Wegner and James Pennebaker put Freud through the empirical r...
Source: The Situationist - July 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Emotions Life Morality Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Ride to Hell and The Situation of Sexual Violence in Video Games
In late June, Deep Silver published a new video game called Ride to Hell: Retribution. The action game, which is available for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, has players taking on the role of a Vietnam War veteran who wages battles with a biker gang. In addition to receiving horrific reviews for its shoddy game play and pointless story — Ride to Hell: Retribution has one of the lowest scores of all video games on Metacritic — the game has attracted much scorn for “forced” sex scenes and its demeaning depiction of women.
For an example of the sexual content in Ride to Hell: Retribution, see from th...
Source: The Situationist - July 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Entertainment Marketing Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Dan Wegner
From Harvard Gazette:
Daniel M. Wegner, a pioneering social psychologist who helped to reveal the mysteries of human experience through his work on thought suppression, conscious will, and mind perception, died July 5 as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was 65.
The John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Wegner redefined social psychology as the science of human experience. He was arguably most famous for his experiments on thought suppression, in which people were unable to keep from thinking of a white bear.
Wegner also broke ground in other areas of social psychology, includi...
Source: The Situationist - July 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Illusions Life Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
The Psychological Situation of Markets
From Caltec News (by Marcus Woo):
When it comes to economics versus psychology, score one for psychology.
Economists argue that markets usually reflect rational behavior—that is, the dominant players in a market, such as the hedge-fund managers who make billions of dollars’ worth of trades, almost always make well-informed and objective decisions. Psychologists, on the other hand, say that markets are not immune from human irrationality, whether that irrationality is due to optimism, fear, greed, or other forces.
Now, a new analysis published the week of July 1 in the online issue of the Proceedings of the Nati...
Source: The Situationist - July 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Independence Day: Celebrating Courage to Challenge the Situation
First Published on July 3, 2007:
With the U.S. celebrating Independence Day — carnivals, fireworks, BBQs, parades and other customs that have, at best, only a tangential connection to our “independence,” — we thought it an opportune moment to return to its source in search of some situationism. No doubt, the Declaration of Independence is typically thought of as containing a dispositionist message (though few would express it in those terms) — all that language about individuals freely pursuing their own happiness. Great stuff, but arguably built on a dubious model of the human animal.
That&#...
Source: The Situationist - July 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: History Ideology Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Independence Day July 4 System Justification Source Type: blogs
The Situation Cheating Students
From American Psychological Association (excerpts from an article by Ann Novotney):
More than half of teenagers say they have cheated on a test during the last year — and 34 percent have done it more than twice — according to a survey of 40,000 U.S. high school students released in February by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics. The survey also found that one in three students admitted they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment.
The statistics don’t get any better once students reach college. In surveys of 14,000 undergraduates conducted over the past four years by Donald McCabe, PhD, a business prof...
Source: The Situationist - June 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Morality Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Seeing Violence; Doing Violence
From Case Western Reserve University on Newswise:
Aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study.
“People may think children that young are passive and unaware, but they pay attention to what’s happening around them,” said Megan Holmes, assistant professor of social work at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.
Between three and 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence each ...
Source: The Situationist - June 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Life Source Type: blogs
Corporate Aid to Governmental Authority – Abstract
Situationist Contributor David Yosifon recently posted another thoughtful and provocative article on corporate law. The article, titled “Corporate Aid to Governmental Authority: History and Analysis of an Obscure Power in Delaware Corporate Law” (forthcoming in University of St. Thomas Law Journal) can be downloaded for free on SSRN. Here’s the abstract.
The Delaware General Corporation Law contains an obscure provision stating that all corporations have the power to “[t]ransact any lawful business which the corporation’s board of directors shall find to be in aid of governmental authority.” 8 D...
Source: The Situationist - June 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Abstracts Deep Capture Law Legal Theory corporate governance corporate law corporate social responsibility Jurisprudence shareholder primacy Source Type: blogs
The Surprisingly Dangerous Situation of Hands Free Devices while Driving
Many drivers use hands-free devices in their cars believing that it is a safer way of texting and emailing than to do so by typing. A new study by the University of Utah and AAA suggests hands-free devices pose more danger than other distractions in cars. Here is an excerpt from a story on the University of Utah’s website:
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“Our research shows that hands-free is not risk-free,” says University of Utah psychology Professor David Strayer, lead author of the study, which he conducted for the foundation arm of the nonprofit AAA, formerly known as the American Automobile Association.
“These new, speech-base...
Source: The Situationist - June 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Law Life Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Questions about NFL Players’ Sexual Orientation
Last week the National Football League Players’ Association announced it would sell t-shirts with a gay pride theme. A number of players have agreed to have their names on the t-shirts. This is a positive step for the NFL, which as Situationist contributor Michael McCann wrote about earlier this year for Sports Illustrated, has seen fallout from its teams asking prospective players about their sexual orientation. Here is an excerpt of McCann’s article “Loaded Question“, which appeared on page 16 in the March 25, 2013 issue of SI.
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In a March 14 letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Ne...
Source: The Situationist - June 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Law Life Situationist Contributors Situationist Sports Source Type: blogs
The Situation of Bran-Scan Lie Detectors
Lauren Kirchner of Pacific Standard Magazine has an interesting piece on the science on brain-scan lie detectors and concerns about law enforcement using them.
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The brain-scan “guilt detection test” is a newer technology that supposedly measures electrical activity in the brain, which would be triggered by specific memories during an interrogation. “When presented with reminders of their crime, it was previously assumed that their brain would automatically and uncontrollably recognize these details,” explains a new study published last week by psychologists at the University of Cambridge. “Using scans of th...
Source: The Situationist - June 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Law Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Alex Laskey on Social Situation of Energy Use
From TED: What’s a proven way to lower your energy costs? Would you believe: learning what your neighbor pays. Alex Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower bills to prove it.
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Source: The Situationist - June 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Environment Video Source Type: blogs
