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Predictive Policing: Technology and the Police State

Anna Redmond
Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine
At first blush, it seems like a scene out of an 80’s era sci-fi film.  The police chief plugs into the network.  Pressing a few keys, he scans a screen full of data and radios a squad car: “Proceed to...

Self-Deception: Success, Happiness, and the Art of Self-Deception

Kaitlin Solimine
Psychology
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. ― Friedrich Nietzsche Plato once said, “Those who tell the stories rule society.”  We  need only look at the modern marketing machine or the...

The Placebo Effect: The Science of Placebos

Anna Redmond
Medicine, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine
As Allied troops stormed the beaches of Italy, a nurse and an anesthesiologist anxiously watched a wounded soldier.  He was in severe pain and on the verge of shock, but their supply of morphine had run...

Lifting the Veil: Behind the Science and Politics of Interrogation

Anna Redmond
Government, Psychology
In a poorly-lit room, a half naked man is being stuffed into a small plywood box.  The interrogator, a disheveled PhD student, barks, “You lie to me, I hurt you.” So begins the film Zero Dark Thirty,...
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