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...Epstein, the other party that Trivers pinpointed as potentially spearheading the decision to cancel his speech date, could not be reached for comment. Dershowitz said Epstein had “nothing to do with” the decision as far as he knew, although he conceded that he might have been embarrassed by the prospect of Dershowitz standing outside the event handing out letters...
...competent in math, 80% of teens gamble, and 5.5 million are in psychological counseling. In more than 100 cultures around the world, teen turmoil is entirely absent; the serious problems of American teens are the creation of a culture that infantilizes young people and isolates them from adults. Robert Epstein, Ph.D., DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO JOHN CLOUD RESPONDS: While the absolute numbers are still too high, Epstein ignores that the trends over time are all good: the teen suicide rate is lower today than in 1980. The use of prescription drugs is up, but teens...
...appearance at Memorial Church was the first event of the three-day long conference called “The New Humanism” hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Humanism is a “non-supernatural alternative to traditional religion,” said Gregory M. Epstein, the University’s Humanist Chaplain. Humanism primarily consists of atheists, agnostics and non-religious people. “The main purpose of the conference is to show the Harvard community and the local community that humanism is the philosophy that best represents the billion people around the world...
Experts who study the court say they have only recently figured out how to measure these ideological movements. A big problem has always been trying to compare Justices and cases from different decades. The math is complex, but Professor Lee Epstein of Northwestern Law School and three other professors came up with a formula that in effect puts the 26 Justices who served at least 10 court terms since 1937 on the bench at the same time. They essentially grouped cases involving similar areas of the law and placed the votes in those cases on a scale ranging from very...
...Epstein's central psychobiological contention--that teens have the brain potential to make adult-level judgments--also doesn't hold up. True, teens have better reaction times and memories than adults, and most have adult-like moral-reasoning skills by adolescence. But a 2000 paper in Behavioral Sciences and the Law confirms common sense: adolescents score significantly worse than adults on assessments of their psychosocial maturity. Teens may know how to make good decisions, but they don't actually make good decisions as often as adults. Epstein points out that some teens do score higher than some adults...