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According to co-author Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, society relies on incentives, in the form of rewards and punishments, to encourage people to conform to certain standards of behavior. "Economists and even psychologists haven't been paying much attention to the fact that small changes in our environment can have dramatic effects on behavior. We underemphasize these subtle environmental cues," he says...
...Northwestern University is dealing with a class project that may have become too successful. From 2003 to 2006, students at the university's Medill School of Journalism investigated the evidence surrounding the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1978 murder of a security guard outside of Chicago. They eventually posted their findings online, including key witnesses recanting their statements during the trial, allegations of police intimidation and two potential suspects named by a man who says he was present during the murder. In response to the student investigation, the state attorney...
...producing a persuasive argument for reopening the case is not the only result of the Medill project. The office of Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has subpoenaed a broad range of materials from Northwestern, from off-the-record interview notes and student memos to class grades and syllabi for the school's Investigative Journalism class, which worked on the project. (See a gallery of exonerated prisoners...
Attorney Richard O'Brien, who is representing Northwestern in the case, says any idea that the school's student journalists aren't entitled to the same protections as working reporters is flawed. "It's not as traditional a platform as the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune, but I don't think anyone pretends that online journalism isn't journalism these days," O'Brien says. A judge is scheduled to hear arguments on the subpoena...
...globe this year, as China pushes for more clout in cultural forums. This summer several Chinese directors pulled out of the Melbourne International Film Festival to protest the screening of a film about Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled activist whom the Chinese government blames for provoking deadly rioting in the northwestern city of Urumqi in July. (Kadeer denies any role in the unrest.) Beijing also criticized the inclusion of the Kadeer documentary The 10 Conditions of Love at a September film festival in Kaohsiung, Taiwan...