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• #9: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

  
  SuperSave Price.com — Authority: 164
  What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (23) Release Date: October 20, 2009 Buy new: $27.99 $13.50 53 used & new from $12.96 (Ranking is updated hourly. View original here: #9: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
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• The Clothes Make the (Heterosexual) Man

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 127
  Dress codes in schools have long been a source of intergenerational conflict, control, and increasingly obvious, a way to police gender norms and sexuality.  In an article that interrogates these instances of specific gender and sexuality “violations” through clothing and accessories, we can see both an increase ...
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• The Situation of Lawyers’ Complicity

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  Cassandra Burke Robertson recently posted her intriguing article, “ Judgment, Identity, and Independence ” ( Connecticut Law Review , 2009) on SSRN .  Here’s the abstract. * * * Whenever a new corporate or governmental scandal erupts, onlookers ask “Where were the lawyers?” Why would attorneys not have ...
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• Role Playing and Role Taking at Fort Hood

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Ted Newcomb and Ted Sarbin were instrumental in introducing the concept of social role into psychology from sociology.   One of Sarbin’s lasting contributions was to distinguish between role playing (acting as if one were the occupant of a social position) and role taking (believing that one is and conducting ...
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• Deep Rationality

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
    Charles Darwin and Daniel Kahneman: Radical changes are in store when these two men are properly introduced to one another.  Behavioral economics has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few years, as demonstrated by the success of a string of books like Predictably Irrational, Nudge, and ...
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• Geoffrey Cohen on “Identity, Belief, and Bias”

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  Situationist Contributor, Geoffrey Cohen spoke at the Second Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) Conference (in March of 2008).  His talk, titled “Identity, Belief, and Bias” summarized research exploring the way in which motivations to protect long-held beliefs and identities contribute to bias, ...
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• Take a deep breath

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 630
  The following is a brief guest commentary by TheOilDrum reader "Prag" on coping with general limits to growth anxiety. If you have your own Campfire topics generally related to resource depletion, please email them to the editors. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never ...
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• Cognitive Dissonance, the Need to Belong, and Mass Murder

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  On Thursday, November 5, 2009, Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood in Texas. Since then, there has been much speculation as to why he behaved as he did. Some of the more prominent explanations include post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of working with ...
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• The Case For Rebound Relationships

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Entering a new relationship when you are still feeling emotionally connected to your previous partner is a complicated affair, and most self-help books, newspaper articles and blog posts strictly advise against entering such rebound relationships. Indeed, the average advice column will ordinarily contend that rebound ...
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• Hormone That Affects Finger Length Key To Social Behavior

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) checking its nailsResearch at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford into the finger length of primate species has revealed that cooperative behavior is linked to exposure to hormone levels in the womb.The hormones, called androgens, are important in the development of ...
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• You Today, Someone Else Tomorrow?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  It is no secret that many of us are better at giving advice to others, than we are at choosing wisely for ourselves. Also, we often seem to be smarter at committing our future-selves than we are at committing for the present. For example, ask yourself when you will start exercising more, and the answer will be "next ...
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• The Situational Power of Appearance and Posture

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  From EurekaAlert : First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at Austin. Despite the crucial role of physical appearance in creating ...
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• Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism by Dr. Kenneth Cloke

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 568
  I spent my day Saturday at the annual convention of the Southern California Mediation Association (kudos to attorney-mediator Phyllis Pollack for a fabulous conference!)  Ken Cloke spoke eloquently on conflict systems and what mediators can do to "save the planet."  I took his presentation (characteristically ...
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• Dan Gilbert on Why the Brain Scares Itself

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  For the Harvard Law Record , Harvard Law Students, Anush Emelianova and Gustavo Ribeiro, wrote a nice summary of Dan Gilbert ’s recent lecture at Harvard Law School.  His lecture, titled “ Why Does the Brain Scare Itself? ,” drew a  crowd of roughly 150 students and contributed to Gilbert’s reputation as ...
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• disconfirming evidence?

  
  Contexts Crawler — Authority: 122
  Some people still believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, even with substantial evidence to the contrary.    AlterNet recently reported on a sociological study that provides insight into how some people rationalize such false information: Of 49 people included in the study who believed in ...
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• Ingenious Monkey 20 two 5 - Priming Toddlers to be Altruisitc

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 485
  Cool blog, and this is an even cooler post on how we can raise children who are considerate and kind. Priming Toddlers to be Altruisitc Reposted from Evolved Primate Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a ...
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• Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes

  
  Psychjourney Podcasts — Authority: 123
  MP3 File Length-38 minutes, 49 seconds Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney , interviews Dr. Sharon Lamb and Dr. Mark Tappan , co-authors of Packaging Boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes with Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown published by St. Martins Press. ...
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• Asymmetric Introspection and Extrospection

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 514
  Situationist Contributor Emily Pronin recently wrote a very helpful primer on her work on the difference between “ How We See Ourselves and How We See Others ,” which she published in Science .  Here’s the abstract. * * * People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in ...
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• Blending Out

  
  Tinted Lenses — Authority: 99
  Faithful readers will note that I have had occasional skirmishes with some of our resident evolutionary psychologists. Although there is room for disagreement about theoretical specifics, modern psychology can ignore evolutionary theory only at its own peril: human behaviour is clearly a partial product of our ...
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• Can We Design Better Communities?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 467
  (DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing Ive been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
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