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Flagging up bias
The Economist: FLAGS are powerful symbols. They appear on ships, parliaments, schools, lapels and even—sometimes—underwear. Exactly what effect they have on people’s behaviour, though, is seldom a topic of scientific inquiry. Melissa Ferguson of Cornell Visit Page
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Political Negotiations Also Shaped By Human Psychology
NPR: We all know congressional negotiators are trying to balance party and ideology, principle and pragmatism. But negotiators are people, too, and psychology has some useful things to say about the ongoing debt-ceiling standoff. Here Visit Page
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A Conversation Between David Brooks and Walter Mischel About Psychological Science
David Brooks is a featured New York Times columnist and a regular on the PBS “News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” In his NY Times columns “Social Science Palooza” I and II, he summarized examples of Visit Page
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Polling the Stars and Stripes
The Wall Street Journal: Showing American voters an image of the American flag while asking whom they plan to vote for shifts them toward the Republican Party, a new study finds—and the effects of that Visit Page
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Shock Study: U.S. Flag Only Boosts GOP
U.S. News & World Report: Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact Visit Page
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Schadenfreude: Why the News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal Makes Some People Smile
Scientific American: Until very recently, even Rupert Murdoch ‘s sharpest critics might have admitted to envying the 80-year-old arch-conservative News Corporation CEO, who built a far-reaching media empire almost from scratch and made himself outstandingly Visit Page
