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...Reached on the phone at his office at Harvard, Gilbert said that this new study builds on previous research on psychological biases and fallacies - a genre of studies "that show us how we are largely strangers to ourselves." But, he says, we can better understand how we will react to future situations by embracing our commonality with other people, and treating their response to experiences as less subjective than objective...
...satisfying narrative that synthesizes Islam and modernity. So they are taking on the task themselves. The soft revolution's combination of conservative symbols, like Islamic dress, with contemporary practices, like blogging, may confuse outsiders. But there are few social movements in the world today that are more important to understand...
...economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted that economics reduces individuals into simple decision-makers instead of acknowledging that people have several competing mental processes. Brown Neurobiology Professor Peter E. Politser argued that economics ignores the nuances of decision making. “To understand decisions across many contexts, we often have to ask not just what people choose, but how and why,” he said. Throughout the symposium, the professors stressed the discipline’s infancy. “I think the field of neuroeconomics is not fully defined...
...very excited to be able to publish my articles broadly,” said Erich J. Muehlegger, an assistant professor at the Kennedy School. While the professors recognized that the move towards open access will likely hurt the journal industry, most still support open access. “I understand the economic pressures the publishing houses are under. They have been losing money for a long time,” said Professor Matthew A. Baum. “But I think it’s unfortunate when intellectual property gets put under lock and key.” Similarly, Professor...
Ironically, it was U.S. technology firms that created much of the technology supporting the Great Firewall, and companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have taken tough criticism from human rights advocates for tolerating the country's censorship. "I simply don't understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night," the late Rep. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, told tech representatives at a 2006 House hearing. Yahoo has taken the most heat, after it acknowledged giving the government information that led to the imprisonment of at least one Chinese journalist. (The company says it was required to comply with Chinese...