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I hope you are enjoying your lunch or Chris Christie as we turn it. We come to the Reagan Ranch Center. I can the privilege of serving as director of the reagan ranch and Merry Christmas. I will go ahead and say it. [applause] great to have you with us during this holiday season. Holiday is not a bad word, used in the same context as christmas. I would like as you are enjoying your food already Begin Program pretty quickly with the invocation of followed by the pledge of allegiance but just as we have been told there is no longer appropriate to say Merry Christmas we have been culturally condi...

That groups of jurors often appears much higher awards than the average or middle member. So jurys got more punitive with the individuals and also measured how bad they thought the conduct was on a numerical scale and is the average individual was a five in the jury would be a six sum outrage people got more of rage those who want to punish corporations with a 100,000 reward after they talked they moved up 200,000 or 1 million. That is astounding day end up much more outraged than the individuals. That is something to learn about jury behavior. This is fascinating. What is happening is if you ...

And that actually is a huge improvement over the idea of groupthink that is in the popular consciousness. Groupthink means suppress the individual ideas and creativity of their members and that is a real problem. But to figure out what actually lives behind groupthink and what are the specifics that make it happen thats something weve made a lot of progress and the book tries to figure out the way his groupthink so to speak actually happens in firms families government and religious organizations and labor unions. And theres the idea that weve learned a lot about how groups can succeed some of...

Cspan. Org history. And we would like to tell you about some of our other American History tv programs. Be with us every saturday 8 00 p. M. And 12 00 a. M. With lectures in history. Hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to the 9 11 terrorist attacks. Thats lectures in history, every saturday at 8 00 p. M. And 12 00 a. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Up next on American History tv, history professor Lea Vandervelde talking about the Supreme Court case of 1857. Dread scott was a slave attempted to sue his owner for his familys freedom after they were mov...

Good evening. I am glad to be here with you for the first lecture in the Supreme Court Historical Societys series, this Supreme Court and the civil war revisited. The timing is just right, for this year marks the 150th anniversary of the war between the states. A bit about the society which i joined many years before i got this good job. And i remain among the legions of supporters of the societys many endeavors. Some of them dorothy mentioned. This society has been a key player in improving public understanding of the court and its role in the constitutional framework of our government. Regul...