tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post2823120844866373352..comments2024-01-08T11:08:42.530-05:00Comments on in-fraction: Science's crisis of faithtchittomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-85581030064307789372012-03-09T17:00:32.632-05:002012-03-09T17:00:32.632-05:00Adam Galinsky, the Morris and Alice Kaplan Profess...Adam Galinsky, the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at Northwestern University, and Hajo Adam, a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, have published a <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103112000200" rel="nofollow">study</a> about the influence of task-specific clothing, such as a lab coat or the robe of a judge. "The clothes we wear have power not only over others, but also over ourselves," the write in write in the <i>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</i>. “The main conclusion that we can draw from the studies is that the influence of wearing a piece of clothing depends on both its symbolic meaning and the physical experience of wearing the clothes. . . . There seems to be something special about the physical experience of wearing a piece of clothing.” They call this affect "enclothed cognition." It suggests that it might be important for religious or other leaders to wear symbolic garments not only because of the impressions they intend to convey to others, but also because of the influence the garments have on the leaders themselves.tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-77776625711598864992012-03-08T15:03:27.888-05:002012-03-08T15:03:27.888-05:00[Clipped from a review of Robert H. Nelson. Econom...[Clipped from a review of Robert H. Nelson. <i>Economics as Religion: from Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond</i> Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001] According to Nelson, economists share the following characteristics with religion: (1) They believe in fate by believing human history is drive by economic forces. (2) They believe in secular version of salvation because they believe material abundance, which progress can create will make people better human beings. (3) They assert the priestly authority of economists. (4) They believe in a value system about what is good for society, the gospel of efficiency. (5) They have faith in their value system and in the effectiveness of the methods practiced by the priestly class.tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-85779877780133546022012-02-20T23:15:26.540-05:002012-02-20T23:15:26.540-05:00I had the opportunity to listen to a noted physici...I had the opportunity to listen to a noted physician in palliative care speak a few weeks ago. In the introduction to his talk he characterized doctors as the high priests of the priestly class. His point is exactly mine, and I cannot but help remember a comment made by Stanley Hauerwas that people care more about the education of their doctors than their priests because they fear death but not God.tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-76953664728875975862012-01-20T17:44:28.653-05:002012-01-20T17:44:28.653-05:00One nitpick: the point of the cenobitic life is ex...One nitpick: the point of the cenobitic life is exactly that it <em>isn't</em> isolated, but instead lived in community. I suspect you meant "hermits in the Egyptian desert".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com