Ana Gantman's guest appearances

Ana Gantman

Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

Opinion Science

Jo Boaler

Elliot Aronson

Kwame Christian

Jesse Thorn

Daniel Pink

Alberto Alesina

Jennifer Lawless

Danna Young

Mahzarin Banaji

Yoel Inbar

Jesse Graham

Dan Pink

Robert Cialdini

David Nussbaum

Robert Jensen

OwlTail

Dr. Ana Gantman studies how people process moral stuff. She’s an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, and she finds that our attention is often drawn more quickly to morally relevant stimuli in our environment. More recently, she’s been looking into how our moral judgments collide with bureaucracy and how we can use moral psychology to address issues surrounding consent and sexual assault.  Things we mention in this episode:The “moral pop-out” effect where moral stuff grabs our attention (Gantman &amp; Van Bavel, 2014; Brady, Gantman, &amp; Van Bavel, 2020)Moral pop-out seems to work like a motivational state because it goes away when needs for justice are satisfied (Gantman &amp; Van Bavel, 2016)Using EEG to study the time course of moral perception (Gantman et al., 2020)The books The Utopia of Rules and Bullshit Jobs by David GraeberHow “phantom rules” can be selectively enforced when someone’s violated other social norms. Taking “consent pledges” before a party can get college students to moralize consent (The Daily Princetonian)Check out my new audio course on Knowable: "The Science of Persuasion."For a transcript of this episode, visit: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/moralizing-and-attention-with-ana-gantman/   Learn more about Opinion Science at http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/ and follow @OpinionSciPod on Twitter. For a transcript of this episode, visit this episode's page at: http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episodes/Learn more about Opinion Science at http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/ and follow @OpinionSciPod on Twitter.

<a href="http://www.anagantman.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Ana Gantman</a> studies how people process moral stuff. She’s an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, and she finds that our attention is often drawn more quickly to morally relevant stimuli in our environment. More recently, she’s been looking into how our moral judgments collide with bureaucracy and how we can use moral psychology to address issues surrounding consent and sexual assault.  Things we mention in this episode:<ul><li>The “moral pop-out” effect where moral stuff grabs our attention (Gantman &amp; Van Bavel, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.02.007" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2014</a>; Brady, Gantman, &amp; Van Bavel, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000673" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2020</a>)</li><li>Moral pop-out seems to work like a motivational state because it goes away when needs for justice are satisfied (Gantman &amp; Van Bavel, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000241" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2016</a>)</li><li>Using EEG to study the time course of moral perception (Gantman et al., <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa030" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2020</a>)</li><li>The books <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Rules-Technology-Stupidity-Bureaucracy/dp/1612195180" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Utopia of Rules</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075RWG7YM/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bullshit Jobs</a> by David Graeber</li><li>How “phantom rules” can be selectively enforced when someone’s violated other social norms. </li><li>Taking “consent pledges” before a party can get college students to moralize consent (<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/05/consent-pledges" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Daily Princetonian</a>)</li></ul> Check out my new audio course on Knowable: <a href="https://knowable.fyi/courses/the-science-of-persuasion/?fpr=andrew28&amp;fp_sid=opsci" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Science of Persuasion."</a>For a transcript of this episode, visit: <a href="http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/moralizing-and-attention-with-ana-gantman/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/moralizing-and-attention-with-ana-gantman/</a> Learn more about Opinion Science at <a href="http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/OpinionSciPod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@OpinionSciPod</a> on Twitter. For a transcript of this episode, visit this episode's page at: <a href="http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episodes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/episodes/</a> Learn more about Opinion Science at <a href="http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://opinionsciencepodcast.com/</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/OpinionSciPod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@OpinionSciPod</a> on Twitter.

#32: Moralizing and Attention with Ana Gantman

Betsy Paluck

Dr. Betsy Paluck and Dr. Ana Gantman present a behavioral perspective on campus sexual assault. Prominent models of sexual assault portray assault perpetrators as one of two extremes. In the clinical model, perpetrators are seen as unchangeable deviants. In the cultural model, perpetrators are a product of rape culture. The behavioral perspective analyzes how individual psychological phenomena and environmental configurations interact, and drive patterns of sexual assault. For example, the behavioral approach enables researchers to analyze how different contexts activate perceived norms, goals, and moral language, which shifts the likelihood of assault. Based on this theoretical framework, Dr. Paluck and Dr. Gantman field-tested an intervention in Princeton University eating club parties. A student-driven initiative requiring party-goers to read aloud a definition of consent at the door was tested by varying the framing of the consent language and the identity of the person presenting the consent language. In this seminar, Dr. Paluck and Dr. Gantman present results and discuss lessons for the design, implementation, and research on the effects of university policy on sexual assault. Betsy Paluck, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University Ana Gantman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University

Dr. Betsy Paluck and Dr. Ana Gantman present a behavioral perspective on campus sexual assault. Prominent models of sexual assault portray assault perpetrators as one of two extremes. In the clinical model, perpetrators are seen as unchangeable deviants. In the cultural model, perpetrators are a product of rape culture. The behavioral perspective analyzes how individual psychological phenomena and environmental configurations interact, and drive patterns of sexual assault. For example, the behavioral approach enables researchers to analyze how different contexts activate perceived norms, goals, and moral language, which shifts the likelihood of assault. Based on this theoretical framework, Dr. Paluck and Dr. Gantman field-tested an intervention in Princeton University eating club parties. A student-driven initiative requiring party-goers to read aloud a definition of consent at the door was tested by varying the framing of the consent language and the identity of the person presenting the consent language. In this seminar, Dr. Paluck and Dr. Gantman present results and discuss lessons for the design, implementation, and research on the effects of university policy on sexual assault. Betsy Paluck, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University Ana Gantman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University

Sexual Assault on College Campuses: A Behavioral Approach with Betsy Paluck and Ana Gantman