The Situation of Fear
Here is the introduction of a current Rolling Stone article by Neill Strauss reviewing the situation of fear, including work by Situationist Contributor, John Jost: From Jen Senko believes that her father was brainwashed. As Senko, a New York filmmaker, tells it, her father was a “nonpolitical Democrat.” But then he transferred to a new job that required a long commute and began listening to conservative radio host Bob Grant during the drive. Eventually, he was holing himself up for three hours every day in the family kitchen, mainlining Rush Limbaugh and, during commercials, Fox News. “It reminded me of ...
Source: The Situationist - October 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Jon Hanson & Jacob Lipton Respond To Randall Kennedy ’ s “ Black Tape ” Op-ed
From the Justice Blog: In the spirit of fostering a community-wide conversation, we wanted to respond to Randall Kennedy’s provocative op-ed. Although Randy is unperturbed by the black tape recently placed over his photograph, he is quite concerned about something else: the potentially destructive effects of taking the outrage and demands of some students at Harvard Law School – and at universities around the country – too seriously. These students perceive racism not only on the walls of Harvard Law School but also in its history, culture, curriculum, and personnel. Having asked some of those students to explain ...
Source: The Situationist - December 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Ideology Implicit Associations Law Legal Theory Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs

Jon Hanson & Jacob Lipton Respond To Randall Kennedy’s “Black Tape” Op-ed
From the Justice Blog: In the spirit of fostering a community-wide conversation, we wanted to respond to Randall Kennedy’s provocative op-ed. Although Randy is unperturbed by the black tape recently placed over his photograph, he is quite concerned about something else: the potentially destructive effects of taking the outrage and demands of some students at Harvard Law School – and at universities around the country – too seriously. These students perceive racism not only on the walls of Harvard Law School but also in its history, culture, curriculum, and personnel. Having asked some of those students to explain ...
Source: The Situationist - December 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Ideology Implicit Associations Law Legal Theory Situationist Contributors Source Type: blogs

‘ Experimenter ’ Star Peter Sarsgaard On Stanley Milgram
  From NPR: The Milgram experiments showed that humans will do bad things under the right circumstances. NPR’s Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film “Experimenter” that explores Stanley Milgram’s life. Related Situationist posts: The Milgram Experiment Yet Again (Again!) Milgram Experiment at 50 Years Shocking for Money The Power of the Situation Video on the Original Milgram Experiment Milgram-Inspired Movie The Situation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Milgram Replicated on French TV – ‘The Game of Death’ A Shocking Situation Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedie...
Source: The Situationist - October 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Classic Experiments Entertainment Source Type: blogs

‘Experimenter’ Star Peter Sarsgaard On Stanley Milgram
  From NPR: The Milgram experiments showed that humans will do bad things under the right circumstances. NPR’s Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film “Experimenter” that explores Stanley Milgram’s life. Related Situationist posts: The Milgram Experiment Yet Again (Again!) Milgram Experiment at 50 Years Shocking for Money The Power of the Situation Video on the Original Milgram Experiment Milgram-Inspired Movie The Situation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Milgram Replicated on French TV – ‘The Game of Death’ A Shocking Situation Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedie...
Source: The Situationist - October 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Classic Experiments Entertainment Source Type: blogs

Trent Smith on Deep Capture and Obesity – The Video
In the fall of 2014, Trent Smith delivered a talk titled “The Economics of Information, Deep Capture, and the Obesity Debate.”  Here’s the abstract and, below that, the video of his talk. 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 i...
Source: The Situationist - September 29, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Choice Myth Deep Capture Events Legal Theory Video Source Type: blogs

Trent Smith on Deep Capture and Obesity – The Video
In the fall of 2014, Trent Smith delivered a talk titled “The Economics of Information, Deep Capture, and the Obesity Debate.”  Here’s the abstract and, below that, the video of his talk. 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 i...
Source: The Situationist - September 29, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Choice Myth Deep Capture Events Legal Theory Video Source Type: blogs

Elizabeth Loftus on “ The Memory Factory ”
A lecture by Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science at University of California, Irvine. In this lecture, Loftus shows us that people can be led to develop rich false memories for events that never happened. False memories look very much like true ones: they can be confidently told, detailed, and expressed with emotion. From Radcliffe Magazine, an excerpt from an article by Susan Seligson: Elizabeth Loftus can make people “remember” that eggs once made them sick or that as children they were briefly lost in a mall, though both “memories” are false. ...
Source: The Situationist - August 20, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Illusions Law Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs

Elizabeth Loftus on “The Memory Factory”
A lecture by Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science at University of California, Irvine. In this lecture, Loftus shows us that people can be led to develop rich false memories for events that never happened. False memories look very much like true ones: they can be confidently told, detailed, and expressed with emotion. From Radcliffe Magazine, an excerpt from an article by Susan Seligson: Elizabeth Loftus can make people “remember” that eggs once made them sick or that as children they were briefly lost in a mall, though both “memories” are false. ...
Source: The Situationist - August 20, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Illusions Law Social Psychology Video Source Type: blogs

Supreme Court Acknowledges “Unconscious Prejudice.”
From Slate, by Kenji Yoshino: Thursday’s blockbuster opinion in the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project case will be primarily and justly remembered for interpreting the Fair Housing Act to include a disparate-impact cause of action. In anti-discrimination law, “disparate treatment” requires an intent to discriminate, while “disparate impact” can allow a plaintiff to win even in the absence of discriminatory intent. For instance, if an entity has a policy that disproportionately affects a protected group, it has to justify that disparity even in the absence of any ...
Source: The Situationist - June 26, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Law Situationist Contributors Social Psychology Source Type: blogs

Systemic Justice Conference – Today!
For more information, see the conference website or the facebook page or download the program (pdf). (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Systemic Justice Conference – Today!
For more information, see the conference website or the facebook page or download the program (pdf). (Source: The Situationist)
Source: The Situationist - April 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Erin Hennes at Harvard Law School – Discussing “ A Convenient Untruth ”
Tomorrow (Thursday) at noon  join the HLS Student Association for Law & Mind Sciences and JUSTICE FOR bALL for a lunch talk with Erin Hennes, PhD to discuss the psychological processes underlying the acceptance of the existence of climate change, and the implications these biases have for our legal system. Non-pizza lunch provided. Where: WCC 2009 When: 3/12/15 at noon ————————————————————————- A Convenient Untruth: System Justification and the Processing of Climate Change Inf...
Source: The Situationist - March 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Public Policy Social Psychology System Legitimacy Source Type: blogs

Erin Hennes at Harvard Law School – Discussing “A Convenient Untruth”
Tomorrow (Thursday) at noon  join the HLS Student Association for Law & Mind Sciences and JUSTICE FOR bALL for a lunch talk with Erin Hennes, PhD to discuss the psychological processes underlying the acceptance of the existence of climate change, and the implications these biases have for our legal system. Non-pizza lunch provided. Where: WCC 2009 When: 3/12/15 at noon ————————————————————————- A Convenient Untruth: System Justification and the Processing of Climate Change Inf...
Source: The Situationist - March 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Events Public Policy Social Psychology System Legitimacy Source Type: blogs

Morality and Politics: A System Justification Perspective
An Interview with John Jost by Paul Rosenberg Note: This interview was originally published on Salon.com with an outrageously incendiary title that entirely misrepresented its content. Introduction by Paul Rosenberg: In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a wide range of thinkers, both secular and religious, struggled to make sense of the profound evil of war, particularly Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. One such effort, “The Authoritarian Personality” by Theodore Adorno and three co-authors, opened up a whole new field of political psychology—initially a small niche within the broader field of social psychology...
Source: The Situationist - March 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Ideology Morality Situationist Contributors Social Psychology System Legitimacy Source Type: blogs