Just finished first watching of The Clinical Importance of Knowing What You're Feeling: Insights From Brain Science. Fascinating.

In the course of my work today, I came across Project Implicit, which is a project devoted to uncovering and understanding implicit attitudes, biases, and stereotypes. Part of the project includes making publicly available a demonstration site for the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which is one of the research instruments used in the Project ( Read more... )

It was interesting to see that Mr McCain used funding for a scientific research project as his example of the evils of earmark spending.