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When good science goes bad: fMRI and neuropolitics

August 12, 2013 0 Comments
When good science goes bad: fMRI and neuropolitics

(This post comes from a long time ago, July 5, 2008, but represents some issues that are still relevant today, including the important problem of reverse inference.) Eventually the chickens come home to roost.  Or insert your favorite aphorism here.  It looks like a full backlash is officially underway regarding some of the more, shall […]

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Priming and the plight of public opinion polling

July 20, 2013 0 Comments
Priming and the plight of public opinion polling

Public opinion polling has, well, issues that it needs to work through. Cengiz Erisen got his PhD in political science at SUNY Stony Brook in 2009.  He recently published an article based on his dissertation in Political Psychology, co-authored with two of his Stony Brook professors, Milton Lodge and Charles Tabor.  Titled “Affective Contagion in Effortful Political […]

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Subliminal exposure to national flags: Branding at work?

April 24, 2013 0 Comments
Subliminal exposure to national flags: Branding at work?

The title of this post refers to a December 2007 article in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by psychologist Ran R. Hassin and colleagues, “Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior”.  The full article is available here. Unlike most academic article titles, this one says it all, thank you.  Hassin […]

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