The Interior Situation of the Climate Change Skeptic
From the APS Observer, an article by Situationist Contributor John T. Jost and Erin P. Hennes
A multitude of environmental scientists, among others, worry that future generations will look back at the present era as one in which the human race could have — and should have —taken decisive action to prevent (or at least mitigate) the most menacing costs associated with global climate change. According to public opinion surveys, however, only 38 percent of Americans believe that global warming will seriously affect them or their way of life (Newport, 2012), and 42 percent continue to believe that global warming claims a...
Source: The Situationist - April 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Environment Ideology Politics Public Policy Situationist Contributors Social Psychology System Legitimacy Source Type: blogs
Frontier Torts Website
Announcing the Frontier Torts Website
In the fall of 2012, the 80 first-year Harvard Law students in Section 6 researched, discussed, debated, and proposed policy solutions to several important policy problems:
Football Concussions
Native American Alcoholism (in Whiteclay, Nebraska)
Bullying
Their work was heavily influenced by situationism and should be of particular interest to readers of this blog. You can learn more about the project, view presentations, and download white papers at the Frontier Torts website. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Pedagogy Source Type: blogs
Posts on the Situation of Evil
For readers interested in previous posts about the situation of evil behavior, here are links to a sample:
The Science of Evil
Zimbardo Lecture on How Good People Turn Evil
The Devil You Know . . .
The Situation of Evil
Situational Sources of Evil – Part III
See also Part I and Part II of this Series.
Deindividuation and Seung Hui Cho
RADIOLAB on the Situation of Badness
Looking for the Evil Actor – Reposted
Jonestown (The Situation of Evil) Revisited
Pinker on the Changing Situation of Violence
Jim Sidanius “Terror, Intergroup Violence, and the Law“
Steven Pinker Speaks at Harvard Law School
Anot...
Source: The Situationist - April 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Confronting Evil Conference – postponed
In what is horrible irony, today’s session of the Confronting Evil Conference has been postponed until tomorrow morning at 8:30. Harvard University is itself closed because of the ongoing public safety situation. Regarding the conference, please check here for further updates.
Confronting Evil Poster (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
The Boston Bombings and the Cognitive Limits of Empathy
From Situationist friend and Harvard Law School 3L, Kate Epstein, an essay about Monday’s tragedy:
As I hear reactions to the bombings at the marathon on Monday, I find myself agreeing with Glenn Greenwald’s column in The Guardian, titled “The Boston bombing produces familiar and revealing reactions: As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the exploitation of fear all instantly emerge.” Particularly interesting to me are our cognitive limits, as humans, when it comes to empathy. Greenwald writes:
The widespread compassion for yesterday’s victims and the intens...
Source: The Situationist - April 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Altruism Conflict Emotions Implicit Associations Social Psychology Source Type: blogs
Frontier Tort – Selling Beer in Whiteclay
At Harvard Law School in the fall of 2012, the 80 students in Professor Hanson’s situationist-orient torts class participated in an experimental group project in their first-year torts class. The project required students to research, discuss, and write a white paper about a current policy problem for which tort law (or some form of civil liability) might provide a partial solution. Their projects, presentations, and white papers were informed significantly by the mind sciences. You can read more about those projects, view the presentations, and download the white papers at the Frontier Torts website.
One of the gr...
Source: The Situationist - April 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Food and Drug Law History Marketing Morality Neuroscience Politics Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs
Deep Capture Conference! – Tomorrow (Saturday)
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. Details here.
Here is the information about our speakers:
Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He has not only made groundbreaking discoveries and insights in the field of linguistics, but has also become one of the most articulate and passionate critics of American foreign policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has written and lectured widel...
Source: The Situationist - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Events Source Type: blogs
Tom McGarity – Today!
(Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
Tony Greenwald Wins the William James Fellow Award
From the Washington Daily (an article about Situationist friend Tony Greenwald):
Even though a black man sits in the White House, and a gay woman legislates in the Senate, according to nearly two decades of research by a professor of psychology at the UW, Anthony Greenwald, most people are racially, ethnically, religiously, or sexually biased.
In 1995, Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji developed the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and uncovered this disturbing truth.
Last week, for this contribution to the field of scientific psychology, the Association for Psychological Science (APS) announced they would present the William J...
Source: The Situationist - April 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Awards Implicit Associations Source Type: blogs
2013 PLMS Conference – Save the Date!
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. For more information, visit the conference website here.
Here’s a draft of the day’s schedule.
Tentative Schedule
9:30 am – Coffee, tea, and pastries
9:50 – 10:10 – Welcome
10:15 – 10:40 – Noam Chomsky
10:50 – 11:15 – Francesca Gino
“Getting Sidetracked: How we are vulnerable to manipulation”
Subtle and seemingly irrelevant factors often influence our...
Source: The Situationist - April 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Events Source Type: blogs
Adrian Raine on the Anatomy of Violence – SALMS Talk Today!
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
When: Thursday 4/4/13 12-1pm
Where: WCC 1010
Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? Professor Adrian Raine (UPenn) will discuss his research on the biological roots of violence and neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate the causes and cures of crime.
Professor Raine has a book to be released on April 30, 2013 with the same title as well as a TV show inspired by his book!
Lunch will be provided. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Book Events SALMS Source Type: blogs
Nalini Ambady Needs Our Help
Social psychologists have launched an international campaign to save the life of Nalini Ambady, a Stanford University social psychologist and Situationist friend who is battling leukemia and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. To find out what you can do, visit Help Nalini Now. Please also read Sam Sommers post: Point. Click. Save this Woman’s Life. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Life Source Type: blogs
2013 PLMS Conference – Overview
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. Here’s a quick
Economists have long recognized regulatory capture as a phenomenon that undermines the public interest. There is also a growing awareness of the harmful effects of money in legislative and executive electoral politics and state judicial elections, suggesting that monied interests have captured our democracy through campaign spending on many levels.
Those scholars and many others, ho...
Source: The Situationist - March 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Events Source Type: blogs
Eliot Spitzer – Today at HLS
Discussion with Eliot Spitzer on Corporations in America. Wed., March
27, 12 – 1 P.M. Austin North. Lunch served.
Courtesy of Professor Hanson’s Corporations class (aka “Like a Virgil”), please join us for a conversation with Governor Eliot Spitzer on Corporations in America. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Eliot Spitzer has served as Governor and as Attorney General of New York, he conducted “The Wall Street Cases.”
Co-sponsored by ACS and the HLS Democrats. (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - March 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Distribution Events Politics Public Policy Source Type: blogs
An Interview with NYU’s Adam Alter
As detailed in a post last week, NYU marketing and psychology professor Adam Alter’s terrific new book, Drunk Tank Pink, is now out in bookstores around the country. It is a thoroughly interesting and engaging read and well worth picking up (indeed, you can order a copy here on Amazon).
As part of what I hope will turn into a trend here at The Situationist, I interviewed Adam about his book. My questions and his responses are found below:
1. What led you to write a book for a trade press?
Adam: The Boston Globe featured a piece on cognitive fluency, one of my main areas of academic interest, and several agent...
Source: The Situationist - March 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Adam Benforado Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
