The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SITUATIONAL CHARACTER,
CRITICAL REALISM, POWER ECONOMICS, AND DEEP CAPTURE
JON HANSON' & DAVID YOSIFON'
What social psychology has given to an understanding of human nature is the
discovery that forces larger than ourselves determine our mental life and our
actions-that chief among these forces . . . [is] the power of the social situation.
-Mahzarin R. Banaji
Perceptions are real . . . . They color what we see . . . what we believe . . . how
we behave. They can be managed ... to motivate behavior . .. to create
positive business results.
-Burson-Marsteller
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Professor of Law, Harvard University.
Law Clerk, Judge Patti B. Saris, United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts. B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Carnegie Mellon University; J.D.,
Harvard Law School.
We are grateful to Kwaku Akowuah, Tom Allen, Tim Cullen, Chris Egleson,
Garrett Moritz, Lena Salaymeh, Yoni Rosenzweig, Wes Shih, Mila Sohoni, Dan Weiner,
Allen Wong, and Michelle Yau for excellent research assistance, to Adam Benforado,
Jon Goldin, Sam Halabi, Brandon Hofmeister,Jith Meganathan, Matt Thompson, and
Adam Wright for extraordinary research assistance, and to Carol Igoe for outstanding
secretarial assistance. Financing from the Harvard Law School Summer Research
Fund provided valuable research support. We are also grateful to participants in the
Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, the University of Michigan Law and
Economics Workshop, and the Harvard Law School Graduate Student Workshop for
helpful comments. We would particularly like to thank Ian Ayres, Guido Calabresi,
Christine Desan, Phoebe Ellsworth, John Gillis, Lani Guinier, Mort Horwitz, James
Livingston, Duncan Kennedy, Todd Rakoff, the late Gaston Rimlinger, Scott Sandage,
Joseph Singer, Paul Slovic, Peter Stearns, Diana Strassmann, and Roberto Unger,
among many others, for their enriching situational influences on us and this work.
Finally, we would like to express our love and deepest gratitude to Kathleen, Emily,
Erin, and Ian Hanson; Paula Noyes; and Michael, Viola, Michael, Jr., Tracy, Stephen,
and Evan Yosifon.
Mahzarin R. Banaji, Ordinary Prejudice, 14 PSYCHOL. SC[. AGENDA 8, 8 (2001).
2 SHELDON RAMPTON & JOHN STAUBER, TRUST Us, WE'RE EXPERTS! 2 (2001) (all
but first ellipsis in original) (quoting Burson-Marsteller, Inc., at http://www.bm.com
(Sept. 27, 1997)).
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