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Disbelief About Free Will Encourages Cheating
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Does moral behavior draw on a belief in free will? (PDF) Two experiments examined whether inducing participants to believe that human behavior is predetermined would encourage cheating. In Experiment 1, participants read excerpts that encouraged a belief in determinism (i.e., behavior as the consequence of environmental and genetic factors) or neutral text. Exposure to the deterministic message increased immoral behavior on a passive cheating task that involved allowing a flawed computer program to reveal answers to mathematical problems that participants should have been solving themselves. Moreover,...
Defining Creativity?
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Below I cite an article drawn from a relatively old book giving ten key criteria of creative people. I don't know much about this area. I thought it might be interesting to talk about. Some of the statements in the article seem insightful, others make me cringe (e.g., the reference to the completely discredited "g" IQ), and I'm not sure exactly what counts as the "population" for this analysis (and the reference to "g" makes me worried about how this population might have been defined).This links to another research study that I do find convincing--that it is useful to place most creative people...
Right Wing Desire to Eliminate College
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See this article in the Wall Street Journal by an American Enterprise Institute Scholar arguing that we should substitute exams for college.Outside a handful of majors -- engineering and some of the sciences -- a bachelor's degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant has a certain amount of intellectual ability and perseverance. Even a degree in a vocational major like business administration can mean anything from a solid base of knowledge to four years of barely remembered gut courses. The solution is not better degrees, but no degrees. Young people entering the job market should...
Who is REALLY PC?
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Interesting study on who is and is not PC in the academic world. In education he apparently looked only at elementary education folks. Elementary Education Professors:PC--24.4%Kinda PC--40%Anti-PC--24.4%Couldn't give a crap--6.7%Of course, the higher up you go, the more PC people get.Other interesting stu...
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