Over at N-N-N, Police Killings: Perception Vs Reality
Many believe US police kill hundreds or even thousands of unarmed Black men every year. The real number is about a dozen.
The American Boy by Theodore Roosevelt. We don't get many uses of the word "pluck" in context these days in the US.
Toward a Sociology of Unmasking by Jason Manning. I had a cartoon on my office door years ago of an old man on a beach chair looking out to sea, saying to the old woman next to him "I've come full circle. Things are what they seem." We love being in the know with hidden information, known to but a few.
Peer-Reviewed Research: Men find looking at nearly-naked women distracting But have they proven it really? The men were distracted from their card games. Are we sure that generalises?
No link, but just wondering what Trump's continued turnaround on Ukraine means. The simplest explanation is that Trump believed he could negotiate a deal with anyone, but has decided that Putin is impossible and is saying "screw you."
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While only tangentially related to police killings of unarmed black men, I have often wondered why I don't see any articles about how many police officers are black men. OR why I don't see anything about how many border patrol officers or policemen in border communities are hispanic.
https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com/2014/09/deadly-force-and-race.html, "there was significant bias favoring blacks where decisions to shoot were concerned."
I checked the study on "the bikini effect" and I gather the "card games" was your addition (does anybody use those nudie card decks to play poker?).
The tests were survey-based (and the "monetary deprivation" aspect of the study had to do with how much "virtual money" they'd been given):
Subsequently, participants engaged in a delay discounting task. Participants specified the amount of money they would require in 1 week and the amount they would require in 1 month to make them indifferent to receiving €15 now.
They compared with women, who didn't show a "sexy-pictures" effect, but did show something maybe related:
Briers et al. (2006) found that an increase in desire for food, instigated by the scent of freshly baked brownies, leads to monetary craving among a female population.
And they proposed an additional experiment:
does monetary deprivation lead to steeper delay discounting of sexual rewards (e.g., specify the number of minutes of sexual activity with your favorite movie star you would require in 1 week to make you indifferent to receiving 15 minutes of sexual activity right now)?
James. Yeah, I was just having fun with that one. Another example of psychologists getting paid to talk about sex all the time.
As for the 2014 study, I remembered that but thought it had something to do with Oakland PD for some reason.
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