Tag: York University

• Look the other way, please.

  There really are inconvenient truths, aren’t there? There are some things that seem to slip quietly under the radar -things that go unremarked until they  are brought our our attention. And even then, they are perhaps dismissed as unimportant -or worse, accepted and rationalized in an attempt to justify them as tools that enable the…

  gozzter

  March 17, 2021

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  Brian Knutson, empathy, ethics, experimental animals, hubris, Jaak Panksepp, King Lear, Kristin Andrews, laboratory animals, Longfellow, Messerli Research Institute, rats, sentience, Shakespeare, Susana Monsó, The Day is Done, Travellers, York University

• More sinned against than sinning

  I’ve already written about the problem of creepiness and fear in another essay,  citing the 2016 study from Knox College in Illinois by the psychologists Francis McAndrew and Sara Koehnke (Can We Forget the Taste of Fear?) but there is another form of creepy that is less -what?- entertaining: when we judge people (usually men)…

  gozzter

  October 14, 2020

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  creepiness, disgust, First reactions, Francis McAndrew, Heidi Matthews, King Lear, Knox College in Illinois, Osgoode Hall, Sara Koehnke, York University