ABA Journal Blawg 100!
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My soul is not for sale!
Oh really? Then why are the US Navy, the US Air Force and the NSF looking at how we make decisions to sell our souls? As it happens, when we are considering disavowing “sacred values”, a specific cognitive process occurs. That has to be good, of course, since we wouldn’t want soul-selling to be relegated read more
We have nothing to fear (unless we are conservative)
A number of recent research projects have focused on attitudinal differences corresponding to political orientation. Many of them have looked at whether our political leanings are based in our genes. That is, we’re born this way. We have another one and this one is on how fear motivates conservatives (more than it motivates liberals). First, research read more
Does a ‘bad heart’ lead to a bad heart?
John Edwards apparently has a bad heart and this will delay his criminal trial. Cynical commenters snipe “oh, he has a heart?” and there is little sympathy for a man people see as narcissistic. And now we see this research showing that narcissistic men have chronically high cortisol levels which leads to (you know this) heart read more
Earlobes askew and crooked nose. Aha, it’s a transformational leader!
Most people would agree that Jeff Bezos of Amazon is a transformational leader. But many of us would likely look askance at using earlobes that are unevenly aligned as a measure of leadership potential. But according to some new research, we might want to think again! As it happens, asymmetry occurs in-utero as a result of read more
Pretrial publicity & bias: Take a look at the age of your jurors!
Despite the Supreme Court ruling [Skilling v US] that pretrial publicity [PTP] does not bias the public perception and limit the right to a fair trial, most of us who have experienced the impact of pretrial publicity disagree. It is an accepted truism that older people are more conservative than younger people. So it’s interesting to read more
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