Alright, internet is now all hooked up and I’m settled in, so blogging should, no, will resume. I’ve been quite lazy about the whole thing for a while now, which I feel bad about but have resolved to rectify. In addition to this blog’s typical fare, I may or may not begin posting about Infinite [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Apologies and David Foster Wallace
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Ezra Klein, Infinite Summer on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Greene and Knobe on Bloggingheads
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bloggingheads, Joshua Greene, Joshua Knobe, Morality on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I was preparing for (and then executing) a move to Cambridge, and I have not yet set up internet in my new apartment. I’m currently reading a fascinating study for a new research blogging post, which I hope to get up soon (but probably tomorrow). In the meantime, [...]
The Conservative Media Bias
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged E.J. Dionne, Ideology, Media Bias, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
E.J. Dionne offered what I think is a critically important observation about the dynamics of the American media in his column the other day (also worthwhile are Matt Yglesias’ and Ezra Klein’s responses). Despite the constant conservative clamoring about the a pervasive liberal media bias, it’s really hard to look at the seriousness with which [...]
On Cognitive Limitations and Subprime Mortgages
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Behavioral Economics, Financial Crisis, Neuroeconomics, Newsweek, Reward, Scott Huettel, Simplification, Subprime Mortgages on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week’s Newsweek had an article (which I found via the excellent Nudge blog) on the Venkatraman and Huettel study I wrote about Wednesday, which is an interesting read. The piece focuses on the second result of the experiment, which detailed the strong relationship between ventral striatal response to reward and propensity to engage in [...]
How the Brain Takes Shortcuts, and Why
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our capacity for intuitive decision-making evolved in a world of high stakes but relatively simple decisions. Feast or forage; fight or flight. The gains of recent technological and financial innovation have been great, but they come at the cost of increased complexity. According to the tenets of rational-choice economics, this can be only a positive [...]
