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Authors@google: Sam Gosling Snoop Video

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Author Sam Gosling visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You " . This event took place June 17, 2008, as part of the authors@google series. Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selve, technorati.com

 

Gender Conformity

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The following 3-minute video (from Sarah Lisenbe)  illustrates the power of gender roles, signage, and mindless compliance. * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see ? Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedience ? Part I ,?  ? The Case for Obedience ,? ? Solomon Asch?s Conformity Experiment . . . Today ,? and ? Solomon Asch?s Classic Group-Influence Experiment .?, technorati.com

 

The Situation of Gender and Science

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Rachana Dixit wrote a worthwhile article in Daily Progress summarizing recent research illustrating the implicit links between gender and science.  Here are some excerpts. * * * A new study has found that both men and women hold unspoken stereotypes that males are more easily linked with science than females. The work?s authors say the stereotypes may contribute to continuing underachievement and under-participation among girls and women in science, furthering the idea that science i, technorati.com

 

Negotiating God: a Sunday Reflection

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According to Robert Wright in The Evolution of God (reviewed in todays NYT Book Review by Paul Bloom ) "God has mellowed" from a capricious tyrant into non- zero-sum playing diety.  This is  good news for mediators and anyone else in search of a better paradigm for conflict resolution than the 16th century adversarial system.  As Bloom explains Wright: When people see themselves in zero-sum relationship with other people ? see their fortunes as inversely correlated with the fortunes o, technorati.com

 

What Situationist Experiments Show

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Long time reader; first time poster.   I'm breaking my silence because we've just finished a paper on virtue ethics and the person-situation debate that might be of interest to some X-Philes.  There aren't many philosophers (or psychologists for that matter) who would be interested in a paper about the true meaning of the correlation coefficient and how it relates to the person-situation debate.  But, given the discussion here, I'm guessing that some of you might be. Here are the details. What, technorati.com

 

Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult

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MP3 File Length-45 minutes, 58 seconds Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney , interview Ms. Jayanti Tamm , author of Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult  published by Harmony. From the time of her birth, Jayanti Tamm , was declared the chosen disciple in the cult of Guru Sri Chinmoy. Jayanti lived inside the confines of the Guru?s inner circle, shuttling between her family?s home, Sri Chinmoy?s Connecticut headquarters, and his ashram in Queens, New, technorati.com

 

Can Security Policy live in a Business World?

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{ 2009 06 26 } Image by Flickr user ianlloydI?ve had a couple of decentarticles come through my various feeds this morning in regards to IT Security and how companies are gaining traction for the acceptance and adoption of policies.Another point of interest raised by Forrester is the shift in spending toward security, but rather than defensive spending, the money is tending toward protecting the DATA. In an age where the security perimeter has shrunk from the outside of the business, to the con, technorati.com

 

The Situation of Chasing Storms

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WCCO (a CBS affliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota) has an interesting piece on what attracts people to chasing storms.  We excerpt it below. * * * Most of us aren?t quite as ambitious as the storm chaser to brought us video of the tornado in Austin, Minn. But think about how you react when crazy weather comes through. Even though we know it?s dangerous, a lot of us still can?t help but go outside or to our windows to watch. So what attracts us to dangerous weather? There is something, technorati.com

 

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

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Noah Goldstein?s, Steve Martin?s (no, not that Steve Martin ?s) and Robert Cialdini?s Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive is a pop psych book, where a bunch of research in psychology is distilled into one readable volume. 50 scientifically proven ways constitute 50 chapters of the book, longest of which take 7 pages. The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not art, hence with the right approach anybody can become the master in the skill of persuasion. So,, technorati.com

 

Gender Disagreement On Attractiveness

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A new study suggests there is much more consensus among men about whom they find attractive than there is among women. The study, by Wake Forest University psychologist Dustin Wood and co-authored by Claudia Brumbaugh of Queens College, appears in the June issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . ?Men agree a lot more about who they find attractive and unattractive than women agree about who they find attractive and unattractive,? says Wood, assistant professor of psychol, technorati.com

 

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