Mahzarin R. Banaji - The Hammer of Ideology

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Mahzarin R. Banaji's presentation from the 2008 Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) Conference.

"If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Ideology is like that, psychologically orienting us to hammer (almost) every judgment and decision with it. I will offer data on the conscious and unconscious manner in which the mind so hammers, and its consequences for fairness in law."

For more speaker videos and to find out more about this year's conference, please visit the PLMS website.

The Situationist Blog: http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/

Maps of Meaning 1: Monsters of Our Own Making

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4512708238184670282

This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 1st of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Theme: The rise of rationality and the scientific method comprised a significant challenge to the religious world-view, but in its place rose ideological systems of true horror, led by resentful and arrogant tyrants such as Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin and Hitler. The demolition of traditional theories of morality thus opened the floodgates for pathological replacements of unforeseeable rigidity and cruelty.

Brian Nosek- Ideology and Automaticity

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Brian Nosek's presentation from the 2008 Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) Conference.

"Listen to a partisan, and you might believe that ideology is the result of reasoned analysis of social life. Listen to the evidence, and you might be convinced that the partisans' reasons are the product of ideology, rather than the cause of it. My research group investigates the automatic basis of ideology and moral judgment, and how deliberative reasoning is a secondary act that emboldens or corrects the initial "gut" judgment."

For more speaker videos and to find out more about this year's conference, please visit the PLMS website.

PLMS
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb....

The Situationist Blog
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/

Brian Nosek's Faculty Page
http://projectimplicit.net/nosek/

Labor Beat: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban Poor

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1808948055843475610

In this presentation, Steve Macek-- author of the book "Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right and the Moral Panic over the City" (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) – analyzes the hysteria over the central city and the urban poor that permeated American politics and popular culture in the 1980s and 90s. He dissects the way mainstream politicians (Rudolph Giuliani, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr.) , conservative intellectuals and the corporate media conspired to demonize inner city neighborhoods and their residents. In particular, he discusses the way that TV news reproduced and validated the right’s stigmatizing, victim blaming images of the urban poor. Ultimately, he critiques the reactionary political interests served by this divisive discourse on urban pathology and points to what activists can do to counter its destructive influence. Assorted visuals. Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is affiliated with IBEW 1220. Views expressed are those of Labor Beat, not necessarily of IBEW. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. For more info: mail@laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. www.laborbeat.org

Cultural Theory: Althusser's Concept of Ideology

rlstrick
College course lecture from Ron Strickland.

The Agenda on Ideology

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D8E8EF03B917825D

britannica
Despotism (Britannica.com) http://www.britannica.com/e... e=youtube_despotis1946

Scientific American Frontiers: Hidden Motives

PBS
If you think you know why you do things, you're probably wrong.

Mahzarin R. Banaji- The Hammer of Ideology

PLMSTube

Mahzarin R. Banaji's presentation from the 2008 Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) Conference.

"If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Ideology is like that, psychologically orienting us to hammer (almost) every judgment and decision with it. I will offer data on the conscious and unconscious manner in which the mind so hammers, and its consequences for fairness in law."

For more speaker videos and to find out more about this year's conference, please visit the PLMS website.

PLMS
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb....

The Situationist Blog
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/

Mahzarin R. Banaji's Faculty Page
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ba...