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Sat Jul 4

• University Diaries » The Ghost in the Management: I recently looked at the c.v. of a distinguished professor of medicine and saw that he had authored (most usually had co-authored) about 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals, an average of nearly 30 per year over his career....How can a scientist author and publish 40 articles in a year? Year after year? In my fields (Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, Sociology), five peer-reviewed articles in a year is a lot, and most researchers would be happy to write one truly good article each year.
• Alex Kotlowitz, "Blocking the transmission of violence", single page, May 2008, New York Times: "CeaseFir e's founder, Gary Slutkin, is an epidemiologist and a physician who for 10 years battled infectious diseases in Africa. He says that violence directly mimics infections like tuberculosis and AIDS, and so, he suggests, the treatment ought to mimic the regimen applied to these diseases: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. [...] Slutkin wants to shift how we think about violence from a moral issue (good and bad people) to a public health one (healthful and unhealthful behavior). [...] The fact that there's no vaccine or medical cure for violence doesn't dissuade him. He points out that in the early days of AIDS, there was no treatment either. In the short run, he's just trying to halt the spread of violence. In the long run, though, he says he hopes to alter behavior and what's considered socially acceptable.&qu ot;
• Andy Coghlan, "Treat killing like a disease to slash shootings", New Scientist: "Shooting s and killings in deprived areas of Chicago and Baltimore have plummeted by between 41 and 73 per cent thanks to a programme that treats violence as if it is an infectious disease. [...] 'Violence gets transmitted the same way as other communicable diseases, so we train "violence interruptors&q uot; to prevent escalation,� 39; says Gary Slutkin, founder and executive director of CeaseFire. 'They change the norm from "violence is what's expected of me" to "violence will make me look stupid",& #039; says Slutkin. [...] A three-year independent evaluation of CeaseFire published by the Department of Justice last year found that in Chicago, it reduced violence in every community where it was deployed." ;

Thu Jul 2

• 10 Rules That Govern Groups

Wed Jul 1

• Why Group Norms Kill Creativity « PsyBlog: Even subtle group norms redefine creativity as conformity to those norms.

Mon Jun 29

• Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?: Faîtes ce que je dis pas ce que je fais !!!
• Social Norms Marketing - The MOST of Us ® approach to keeping people healthy: MOST of Us is a social norms marketing firm that designs and implements media programs and campaign advertising to promote healthy behavior and meaningful community change.

Sun Jun 28

• Judgments of Others in Primarily Oral Cultures

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