Douglas L. Medin

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  A paper published this spring by Sonya Sachdeva, Rumen Iliev and Douglas Medin of the psychology department at Northwestern University found that, if people were primed to think of themselves as good, caring people, they were actually less generous with donations and less likely to advocate spending money on costly environmental protection measures, than people primed to think of themselves as selfish and cruel.
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  Medin, a professor, and Sachdeva, a graduate student, describe an inner moral regulator that's something like a thermostat: It prevents our moral self-image from dropping too low, but it also keeps us from trying to push it up too high.
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  Medin, for his part, suspects there may be some wiggle room. At the very least, there are famous examples of people who seem to have reset theirs. "If you take someone like Mother Teresa," he says, "I doubt that she was good all day and then lapsed into - well, use your own imagination - at night."

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  Think, for example, of that sugar and fat-laden concoction that you wolf down after an especially vigorous run, said Douglas Medin, psychology professor at Northwestern University.
  
  'That pretty much eliminates the benefits of running an extra 20 minutes,' he said.

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  Douglas L. Medin, Northwestern University

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  Douglas L. Medin, Northwestern University

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  Ross, Norbert (Northwestern University) and Douglas Medin (Northwestern University) Menominee Aquatic Folkecology This paper reports ongoing cross-cultural research about aquatic folkecological models of Menominee and Majority culture fish-experts in Northern Wisconsin.

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  Northwestern University; The Cultural Context of Learning: Native American Science Education; Douglas L. Medin;

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  Douglas Medin has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology.
  
  APS is the only association solely dedicated to supporting researchers, applied and clinical scientists, academics, and teachers in the fields of psychology. The Society is a powerful voice in promoting psychology as a science-based discipline and advancing behavioral science research on Capitol Hill.
  
  "APS is an important component in fostering a community of scholars," said Medin, who is a professor and chair of the psychology department at Northwestern University, as well as the Director of Program in Culture, Language, and Cognition.
  
  Medin, an APS Fellow, first became interested in the scientific investigation of behavioral phenomena when he wanted to understand, "why my friends, who were so inquisitive and insightful outside of school, were getting poor grades in school." This initial question has led Medin to focus his research on topics such as understanding cultural processes associated with nature and science learning, categorization and reasoning, and morally motivated decision making.
  
  Among the challenges facing today's psychological researchers is the ability for the field, "to be relevant to real world problems without claiming more than our current scientific knowledge can support," said Medin.
  
  Medin is the winner of the 2005 APA's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, a significant portion of Medin's research includes cross-cultural comparison, which has involved studying categorization of different biological types within different populations in Guatemala and Mexico.

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  Also elected to three-year terms on the APS Board of Directors are Patricia Devine, also of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Douglas Medin, of Northwestern University.

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  According to Northwestern University psychologists Daniel Bartels and Douglas Medin, morally motivated decision makers may indeed be sensitive to the consequences of their choices
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  Using two procedures to assess quantity insensitivity, Bartels and Medin found that protected values don't always produce quantity-insensitive choices.

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  Douglas Medin
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