The study of heuristics and biases in judgement has been criticized in several publications by G. Gigerenzer, who argues that "biases are not biases" and "heuristics are meant to explain what does not exist" (1991, p. 102). The article responds to Gigerenzer's critique and shows that it misrepresents the authors' theoretical position and ignores critical evidence. Contrary to Gigerenzer's centr...

SITE MAP The art of boundary crossing Finally, spring is in the air. The winter has been unusually long and cold and April the usual flop. Now that May's here, we definitely want to see a different picture; more sun, more colors, more fun! Thank God, May makes everything new, or does it? Maybe it takes a little help from us. Why not take that "Spring is in the air" theme literally and see what ...

Carnahan and McFarland critique the situationist account of the Stanford prison experiment by arguing that understanding extreme action requires consideration of individual characteristics and the interaction between person and situation. Haslam and Reicher develop this argument in two ways. First, they reappraise historical and psychological evidence that supports the broader "banality of evil...

Paul Mattick's work still awaits a working-class movement which will find in it a historical understanding of a phase in capitalist history ("the mixed economy" of the postwar era) that will allow the working class to make sense of the newness and distinctiveness of its revolutionary aspirations. Paul Mattick realized that this movement may never come, that his message in a bottle may remain fo...

After a great deal of initial promise and enthusiasm, evolutionary art seems to have hit a premature and disappointing plateau. This paper proposes a difficult but necessary program for the advancement of evolutionary art. First two significant problems are discussed. The first is the problem of creating aesthetic fitness functions that would allow evolutionary art systems to execute unattended...

In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At same time, is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises past, normalises present, precludes just sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence field design, question inherent blind spots discipline, expand underst...

Contemporary science with its strong positivism tends to trivialize the nature of boundaries. Boundaries are supposedly real and our ability to recognize them as such is regarded as a straightforward exercise. This by-product is a direct result of science’s focus on the quantifiable and mathematizable (Goodwin, 2000). Given such a naïve belief in the (ontological) status of boundaries, it is ea...

The American Political Science Review recently published a critique of an article we published in the Journal of Politics in 2008. In that article we showed that variants of the genes 5HTT and MAOA were significantly associated with voter turnout in a sample of 2,300 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Here, we address the critique first by conducting a replicati...