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Lee Ross, a psychological scientist celebrated for his work on biases in decision making, died Friday, May 14 in Palo Alto, California. In a career that stretched over 50 years at Stanford University, Ross was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) and the National Academy of Sciences (2010). In 2003, he received the APS William James Fellow Award in recognition of his extensive research on judgement, inferences, and decision making.
Ross died of a longstanding heart condition and was in the company of his family at the time of his passing, according to APS Fellow Hazel Markus, a close friend.
Born in Toronto in 1942, Ross influenced many fields of psychology, including attitude formation and change, social cognition, judgment and decision-making, social influence, intergroup relations and political psychology. His research generally focused both on sources of bias and error and strategies to ameliorate them.
They’ll talk about change, about politics, about reform, about corruption, but they will never talk about war unless they mean something happening far away. Because to admit the existence of the war waged against us is to admit that we are combatants, and if we see that we are not fighting back, then we would have to admit that we have surrendered. That we have already been defeated.—The Arctic Circle Collective
Hassan al Sabbah, a brilliant Iranian polymath and tactician, founded the Nizari Ismai’li state, a state that flourished from 1090 to 1256 AD in Iran and Syria. This small state relied on a cadre of fearless professional assassins to protect itself from conquests, and to protect co-religionists living elsewhere from massacres.
they muput nothing in there, except that it was turned out. it has to lead to the human inference that it was a hijacking or a stolen aircraft. >> mike? >> i have to agree entirely. and for safety's sake, we have to assume that going forward if someone has this airplane, and that's a real stretch, and wants to do something with it, some time in the next 12 months, they might do something with it, we need to look into those options. but i have to agree with the lawyer. it doesn't look good. we can make excuses, but there's too many points here that just don't add up. >> peter brooks, we had lieutenant governor macknerny on the program, saying he believes very much that this plane could have made it to pakistan and that's where we feed to be looking and worried about. your thoughts on it? >> well, i mean, tom is a friend of mine. and i understand his theory there. and what, you know, gives some plausibility to it, and i would like to know more about it, is why israel has reacted so