Men in Wrong Places

Looking in all the wrong places.

Looking for answers in all the wrong places.

Chimpanzee Theory of Mind: Looking in All the Wrong Places?

I respond to an argument presented by Daniel Povinelli and Jennifer Vonk that the current generation of experiments on chimpanzee theory of mind cannot decide whether chimpanzees have the ability to reason about mental states. I argue that Povinelli and Vonk’s proposed experiment is subject to their own criticisms and that there should be a more radical shift away from experiments that ask subj...

Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decisionmaking

LOOKING FOR REGIONALISM IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Demography, Geography, and Community in Los Angeles County

The new regionalism tends to emphasize the commonalities of central cities and their suburbs. Los Angeles County has surprisingly minor differences between central city and suburb—leading one to wonder why municipal alliances across jurisdictional lines have not been more prominent. The author tackles this anomaly by breaking L.A. County into 58 different areas and tracking demographic and econ...