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	<title>A Politics &#38; Moral Psychology Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.polipsych.com</link>
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		<title>Why doesn&#8217;t Ron Paul use the word &#8216;America&#8217; much?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine forwarded me this article in the New York Times, which compared the presidential candidates' usages of various terms.  Some words require more context, but what struck him (and me, after I saw it) in this graph is the fact that Ron Paul doesn't use the words America or American very much, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2012/01/25/ron-paul-the-word-america/</link>
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		<title>The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Protect Fair Negotiations (not the poor)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray to be the head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers.  What exactly does it mean to 'protect consumers'?
To some, the goal of the agency is to protect the poor, by regulating companies that provide "payday loans" to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2012/01/07/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-fair-negotiations-cordray/</link>
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		<title>The Experiential Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote/created (though the graphic design is not mine) the below infographic for Good Magazine in an issue dedicated to societal trends.  The idea here is that the material economy (which produces physical goods like cars and electronics) is being replaced by the experiential economy (which produces experiences like food and vacations).  The psychological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/12/11/the-experiential-economy/</link>
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		<title>The Moral Foundations of ThinkProgress, Alternet, Daily Kos, &amp; the NY Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple years, Jon Haidt has had press articles from various liberal leaning press organizations, including these articles from ThinkProgress, Alternet, Daily Kos, and the New York Times.
One of the great things about doing internet research is that web servers automatically collect information that makes it very easy to do cross-sample validation.  This information can also be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/11/02/the-moral-foundations-of-thinkprogress-alternet-daily-kos-the-ny-times/</link>
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		<title>Liberals vs. Conservatives:innocent until proven guilty?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are uncertain if a criminal is innocent or guilty, is it better to err on the side of innocence or guilt?  Given that proof is continuous, not categorical, how much bias toward innocent until proven guilty should one have?  A friend of a friend recently asked is this question to a group of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/10/15/liberals-vs-conservativesinnocent-until-proven-guilty/</link>
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		<title>Does social psychology try too hard to be perceived as a &#8220;science&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read this article in the American Psychological Society's magazine, the Observer, and it reminded me of this article by Paul Rozin, detailing how social psychology's desire to be perceived as more scientific has led it to restrict the range of methods deemed acceptable (an over reliance on confirmatory rather than exploratory methods).  As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/09/11/social-psychology-perceived-as-a-science/</link>
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		<title>Equity trumps Equality in arguments about taxation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is more effective to advocate for progressive taxation using arguments about equity or deservingness rather than arguments about how unequal American society has become. 
I have written about this before, using different data, but with renewed attention being paid to rising inequality, leading liberals to continue to push for rising taxes for the rich, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/08/31/equity-equality-deservingness-taxations-inequality/</link>
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		<title>Hypermoral Debt Ceiling Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to popularize psychological theories such as idealistic evil and the dark side of moral conviction, I sometimes use the term hypermoral to describe why ostensibly good people (e.g. non-psychopaths), can be led to do terrible things for ostensibly moral reasons.  Research suggests that much of the violence that exists in the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/07/31/hypermoral-debt-ceiling-quotes/</link>
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		<title>Libya as a moral war (except for libertarians)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people believe that war and violence are inherently immoral, and some psychologists have begun to explore the idea that celebrating heroism is an antidote to the problem of evil. In contrast, other psychologists have highlighted the dark side of moral conviction (Skitka &#38; Mullen, 2002) and the notion of idealistic evil (Baumeister, 1997) to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/07/17/libya-moral-war-libertarians/</link>
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		<title>Oregon&#8217;s Medicaid Experiment vs. Motivated Reasoning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, an unprecedented study was done in Oregon where (due to budgetary, not research reasons) a lottery was held to randomly decide which applicants for Medicaid would actually receive the opportunity to receive Medicaid.  There has never been an opportunity to randomly assign people to have access to a program like Medicaid, and so this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2011/07/10/oregons-medicaid-experiment-vs-motivated-reasoning/</link>
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