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Your Brain is More Than a Bag of Chemicals
April 21, 2013
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications — that work better and avoid side effects. How’s he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry.
April 21, 2013
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications — that work better and avoid side effects. How’s he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry.
New Advanced Decision Analysis Course Description
April 16, 2013
Lawyers create value for their clients by effectively representing them in negotiations. Transactional lawyers bring multivariable deals together when expectations are high for the relationship. Litigators negotiate disputes in the shadow of potential trial outcomes in all but about 2% of cases. Sound decision making in these circumstances is the essence of effective lawyering. Since effective decision making is not strongly correlated with higher education or high I.Q., it must be learned and practiced....
April 16, 2013
Lawyers create value for their clients by effectively representing them in negotiations. Transactional lawyers bring multivariable deals together when expectations are high for the relationship. Litigators negotiate disputes in the shadow of potential trial outcomes in all but about 2% of cases. Sound decision making in these circumstances is the essence of effective lawyering. Since effective decision making is not strongly correlated with higher education or high I.Q., it must be learned and practiced....
Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse: Using Brain Science, Game Theory
April 8, 2013
The fact patterns of this course will be familiar to the experienced mediator and trial advocate in negotiation: difficult people, heightened emotions, overly confident case assessments, deeply held beliefs, and barriers to rational deals. We will explore the neuropsychology behind these defining characteristics and the mediator micro-interventions that can turn them from impasse ingredients to the seeds of a successful deal. We will explore modern brain science—not only as a way to explain...
April 8, 2013
The fact patterns of this course will be familiar to the experienced mediator and trial advocate in negotiation: difficult people, heightened emotions, overly confident case assessments, deeply held beliefs, and barriers to rational deals. We will explore the neuropsychology behind these defining characteristics and the mediator micro-interventions that can turn them from impasse ingredients to the seeds of a successful deal. We will explore modern brain science—not only as a way to explain...
Do Lawyers Really Believe Their Own Hype, and Should They?
March 28, 2013
Research suggests that attorneys are too confident in the merits of their clients’ cases. But attorneys often self-select (1) the area of law in which they practice, (2) the side on which to practice within that area, (3) law firms with whom they practice, and (4) the clients they represent. We exploit a natural experiment involving participants in moot court competitions at four U.S. law schools over 2 years to explore whether, after stripping away these selection biases through random assignment...
March 28, 2013
Research suggests that attorneys are too confident in the merits of their clients’ cases. But attorneys often self-select (1) the area of law in which they practice, (2) the side on which to practice within that area, (3) law firms with whom they practice, and (4) the clients they represent. We exploit a natural experiment involving participants in moot court competitions at four U.S. law schools over 2 years to explore whether, after stripping away these selection biases through random assignment...
Curiosity, Information Gaps, and the Utility of Knowledge
March 21, 2013
We propose an integrated theoretical framework that captures the diverse motives driving the preference to obtain or avoid information. Beyond the conventional desire for information as an input to decision making, people are driven by curiosity, which is a desire for knowledge for its own sake, even in the absence of material benefits, and people are additionally motivated to seek out information about issues they like thinking about and avoid information about issues they do not like thinking about...
March 21, 2013
We propose an integrated theoretical framework that captures the diverse motives driving the preference to obtain or avoid information. Beyond the conventional desire for information as an input to decision making, people are driven by curiosity, which is a desire for knowledge for its own sake, even in the absence of material benefits, and people are additionally motivated to seek out information about issues they like thinking about and avoid information about issues they do not like thinking about...
Acting Irrationally
March 14, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to interview actor Peter Dinklage (of Game of Thrones fame) as part of the Rubin Museum Brainwave series, which pairs big names from pop culture with cognitive researchers to see what comes of it. My intention was to see if I could draw some connections between the craft of acting and the field of social science. (As it turned out, I was fairly unsuccessfully. For now.) I asked Mr. Dinklage several questions to this effect, which he answered in more or less the same...
March 14, 2013
Recently I had the opportunity to interview actor Peter Dinklage (of Game of Thrones fame) as part of the Rubin Museum Brainwave series, which pairs big names from pop culture with cognitive researchers to see what comes of it. My intention was to see if I could draw some connections between the craft of acting and the field of social science. (As it turned out, I was fairly unsuccessfully. For now.) I asked Mr. Dinklage several questions to this effect, which he answered in more or less the same...
The Next Frontier Is Inside Your Brain
March 12, 2013
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an “activity map” that would show in unprecedented...
March 12, 2013
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an “activity map” that would show in unprecedented...
Brains On Purpose: Video of Joseph LeDoux talking about the emotional brain
January 13, 2013
Brains On Purpose: Video of Joseph LeDoux talking about the emotional brain http://goo.gl/HgDaS
January 13, 2013
Brains On Purpose: Video of Joseph LeDoux talking about the emotional brain http://goo.gl/HgDaS
CPR Institute: Alternatives: The Master Mediator: Looking My Way: The Brain Is Not a Computer
January 5, 2013
CPR Institute: Alternatives: The Master Mediator: Looking My Way: The Brain Is Not a Computer http://goo.gl/iFAAm
January 5, 2013
CPR Institute: Alternatives: The Master Mediator: Looking My Way: The Brain Is Not a Computer http://goo.gl/iFAAm
ABA Journal: Law Firm Creates Think Tank to Study Analytics
December 23, 2012
ABA Journal: Law Firm Creates Think Tank to Study Analytics http://goo.gl/ggFLs
December 23, 2012
ABA Journal: Law Firm Creates Think Tank to Study Analytics http://goo.gl/ggFLs
