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,...