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Face Blindness
From CBS News: Imagine you couldn’t recognize people’s faces, and even your own family looked unfamiliar. Lesley Stahl reports on face blindness, a puzzling neurological disorder. From CBS News: This...
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The Situation of Money-Based Happiness
An excerpt from a recent, terrific New York Times piece by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton: The notion that money can’t buy happiness has been around a long time — even before yoga came into vogue....
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Situationist Contributor Mahzarin Banaji Speaks at HLS
Dr. Mahzarin Banaji Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People Friday, October 12 at 5:00 pm Wasserstein Hall, Room 2019 Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA Followed by a public...
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Visualizing How Our Brains Make Visual Meaning of Our World
From TEDTalks: Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we...
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Jeremy Bailenson on Virtual Reality
From Pacific Standard (a brief excerpt from a long, worthwhile article about the work of Jeremy Bailenson): A few years ago, a research psychologist at Stanford University named Jeremy Bailenson...
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The Situational Source of Illusions
From National Geographic’s Brain Games: Interactive experiments, illusions, and mind tricks reveal the inner workings of the ultimate supercomputer—the human brain. Review many more Situationist posts...
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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...
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Daniel Simon’s Movie Perception Test
A movie perception test by Daniel Levin & Daniel Simons. Review all the Situationist posts presenting or discussing illusions here.
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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...
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