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07 Oct 09

From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans -- Mobbs et al. 29 (39): 12236 -- Journal of Neuroscience

  • These findings support models suggesting that higher forebrain areas are involved in early-threat responses, including the assignment and control of fear, whereas imminent danger results in fast, likely "hard-wired," defensive reactions mediated by the midbrain.
27 Sep 09

The logic of grievance-self-harm experiment (Yamagishi et al PNAS)

  • In a series of experiments, we demonstrate that certain players of an economic game reject unfair offers even when this behavior
    increases rather than decreases inequity. A substantial proportion (30–40%, compared with 60–70% in the standard ultimatum game) of
    those who responded rejected unfair offers even when rejection reduced only their own earnings to 0, while not affecting the
    earnings of the person who proposed the unfair split (in an impunity game). Furthermore, even when the responders were not
    able to communicate their anger to the proposers by rejecting unfair offers in a private impunity game, a similar rate of rejection was observed. The rejection of unfair offers that increases inequity cannot be explained by the social preference for inequity aversion or reciprocity; however, it does provide support
    for the model of emotion as a commitment device. In this view, emotions such as anger or moral disgust lead people to disregard
    the immediate consequences of their behavior, committing them to behave consistently to preserve integrity and maintain a
    reputation over time as someone who is reliably committed to this behavior.
01 Sep 09

Predictably Irrational » Blog Archive » Dear Irrational (Does it Pay to Play Hard to Get?)

  • The classic experiment here comes from psychologists Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith, who had participants perform a boring task and then paid them either $20 or $1 to convince someone else that the task had been great fun. Everyone then rated the task, with the result that the $1 participants rated the task more positively than did the $20 crew. While the $20 group could explain away the dissonance between their action (“I told someone the task was riveting”) and their belief (“It actually bored me to tears”) via money (“I was paid to promote the task”), the $1 individuals could not because they could not justify misleading others for such a small amount of money– so they changed their initial belief (“I must really like the task, to have promoted it”) and they ended up rating the task more positively.
07 Nov 07

You're Not Fooling Anyone - Chronicle.com

  • In other words, we have come so far in the American postindustrial meritocracy that everyone has equal access to guilt-ridden feelings of fraudulence.
18 Nov 06

Britain’s war: evasion and reality Paul Rogers - openDemocracy

  • "The extremists are motivated by a sense of grievance and injustice driven by their interpretation of the history between the West and the Muslim world".
  • Furthermore: "The video wills of British suicide bombers make it clear that they are motivated by perceived worldwide and long-standing injustices against Muslims; an extreme and minority interpretation of Islam promoted by some preachers and people of influence; and their interpretation as anti-Muslim of UK foreign policy, in particular the UK's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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