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		<title>On Hyperpartisanship, Hypermoralism, and the Supernormal Stimuli of Modern Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's lead story from Politico, The Age of Rage, probably summarizes a lot of what people think is wrong with politics. Rather than make good policy, politicians and media are more concerned with scoring points for their political ideology (hyperpartisanship). However, as the Politico article points out, their actions are largely driven by the general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/07/23/on-hyperpartisanship-hypermoralism-and-the-supernormal-stimuli-of-modern-politics/</link>
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		<title>The Psychology of the JournoList &#8220;Scandal&#8221;: Mirror Image Stereotypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a regular reader of political blogs, I could not help but notice that a number of my favorite sites were writing about the same thing, specifically, their participation in a discussion group called JournoList, which included numerous media members such as Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight and Politico writer Ben Smith, both of whom I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/07/21/the-psychology-of-the-journolist-scandal-mirror-image-stereotypes/</link>
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		<title>Intrinsic, not Extrinsic Motivation Leads to Greater Reward &#8211; 2 Theories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presented in the context of bringing together consilience from outside of psychology, a friend of mine sent me the below TED video, by Simon Sinek, which I believe has a lot in common with what much of psychology is discovering, specifically that intrinsic gut-level motivations are much more powerful than extrinsic rational motivations.  In some ways, much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/07/12/intrinsic-extrinsic-motivation-reward-theorie/</link>
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		<title>Appreciating American Libertarians &#8211; Insight from Ted Conover&#8217;s Book, Rolling Nowhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Ted Conover's book, Rolling Nowhere, which I definitely recommend to anyone interested in understanding the human condition.  In fact, I'd recommend any/all of Conover's books, where he assumes roles as diverse as a prison guard, illegal immigrant, and in this book, a train jumping hobo. Personally, psychology is always more convincing when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/07/04/american-libertarians-ted-conover-rolling-nowher/</link>
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		<title>Psychological Causes of Violence in Sports Riots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Los Angeles Lakers won game 7 against the Boston Celtics and there were riots in the streets of los angeles.  Below is a video of some of the scene.

This scene is not unique to Los Angeles.  In fact, riots appear to occur with regularity when sports teams win.  There were riots in Boston [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/06/30/psychological-causes-of-violence-in-sports-riots/</link>
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		<title>On the Morality of Torture &amp; Utilitarianism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I personally do not believe in torture, but I have to admit that when I think of it, my mind prototypically thinks of the potential harm that might befall an innocent person caught by an unscrupulous policeman who is all too sure of his moral superiority. What would I do if I knew with 100% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/06/23/on-the-morality-of-torture-utilitarianism/</link>
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		<title>What can psychology tell us about moral reasoning that literature and the humanities cannot?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues of mine were fortunate enough to gather in Herzilaya, Israel for a conference on morality, the product of which is publicly available online. As I reach the end of my graduate school career, I find myself wondering about the greater purpose of some of the research psychologists do and I found particular resonance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/06/15/what-can-psychology-tell-us-about-moral-reasoning-that-literature-humanities-cannot/</link>
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		<title>Armando Galarraga demonstrates the relationship between happiness and forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching baseball can be a frivolous pursuit and a distraction from psychology research, but last night something happened which demonstrated a psychological finding far more effectively than any study or paper.
Armando Galarraga, a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, was very close to pitching a perfect game. For non-baseball fans, its a very rare occurrence, comparable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/06/03/armando-galarraga-demonstrates-the-relationship-between-happiness-and-forgiveness/</link>
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		<title>Wanted: Motivated Academic Writers to Help Publish Our Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the publicity which moral psychology (and specifically Jon Haidt's work) has begun to receive, along with the average person's insatiable appetite for knowledge about themselves, facilitated by the internet, we have collected a truly unique dataset at yourmorals.org. It is a large community sample and includes some reaction time data. It is non-representative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/05/11/wanted-motivated-academic-writers-to-help-publish-our-data/</link>
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		<title>Can open government data inform voters in the 2010 election?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I think the answer is no. For the last week, I've been attempting to update a 'candidate calculator' website that I helped create for the 2008 presidential election, votehelp.org. Candidate calculators are a term for quizzes or surveys which ask you questions about issues (sometimes weighted by issue importance) and then match you with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.polipsych.com/2010/05/04/can-open-government-data-inform-voters-in-the-2010-election/</link>
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