The Social Animal (65 page)

5
Bartels concludes that
Larry M. Bartels, “Beyond the Running Tally: Partisan Bias in Political Perceptions,”
Political Behavior
24, no. 2 (June 2002): 117-150,
http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS234/articles/bartels.pdf
.

6
Charles Taber and Milton Lodge
Joseph T. Hallinan,
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
(New York: Broadway Books, 2009), 44-45.

7
The candidate who was perceived
Joe Keohane, “How Facts Backfire,”
Boston Globe
, July 11, 2010,
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/
.

8
ten-second silent video clips
Daniel Benjamin and Jesse Shapiro, “Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections,
Review of Economics and Statistics
91, no. 3 (2009): 523-26,
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/dbenjamin/thinslice022908.pdf
.

9
location of a voting booth
Jonah Berger, Marc Meredith, and S. Christian Wheeler, “Contextual Priming: Where People Vote Affects How They Vote,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
105, no. 26 (July 1, 2008): 8846-49,
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~marcmere/workingpapers/ContextualPriming.pdf
.

10
The event was stupid
Ran R. Hassin, Melissa J. Ferguson, Daniella Shidlovski, and Tamar Gross, “Subliminal Exposure to National Flags Affects Political Thought and Behavior,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences
104, no. 50 (December 2007): 19757-61,
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/50/19757.abstract
.

CHAPTER
20:
THE
SOFT
SIDE

1
The individualism of the left
Mark Lilla, “A Tale of Two Reactions,”
New York Review of Books
, May 1998,
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1998/may/14/a-tale-of-two-reactions/
.

2
8 percent of students
William G. Bowen, Martin Kurzweil, and Eugene Tobin,
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2005), 91.

3
In Britain you wound up
“Britain is ‘surveillance society,’ ”
BBC
, November 2, 2006,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6108496.stm
.

4
“Look at the society”
Phillip Blond, “Rise of the Red Tories,”
Prospect
, February 28, 2009,
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/02/riseoftheredtories/
.

5
“At root, in almost every”
James Q. Wilson, “The Rediscovery of Character: Private Virtue and Public Policy,”
The Public Interest
81 (Fall 1985): 3-16,
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/the-rediscovery-of-character-private-virtue-and-public-policy
.

6
“The spiritual nature of man”
Clinton Rossiter,
Conservatism in America
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 43.

7
“The central conservative truth”
Lawrence E. Harrison,
The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
(Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2006), xvi.

8
75 percent of the anti-Western
Marc Sageman,
Understanding Terror Networks
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 73-75.

9
Olivier Roy argues
Olivier Roy,
Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

10
Harold pointed out
David Brooks, “The Wisdom We Need to Fight
AIDS
,”
New York Times
, June 12, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12brooks.html
.

11
a hospital in Namibia
David Brooks, “In Africa, Life After
AIDS
,”
New York Times
, June 9, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/opinion/09brooks.html
.

12
So the market had partially
David Brooks, “This Old House,”
New York Times
, December 9, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/opinion/09brooks.html
.

13
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Daniel Drezner, “The
BLS
Weighs in on Outsourcing,”
DanielDrezner.com
, June 10, 2004,
http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001365.html
and “Extended Mass Layoffs Associated with Domestic and Overseas Relocations, First Quarter 2004 Summary,” Bureau of Labor Statistics Press Release, June 10, 2004,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/reloc.nr0.htm
.

14
Pankaj Ghemawat
Pankaj Ghemawat, “Why the World Isn’t Flat,”
Foreign Policy
, February 14, 2007,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2007/02/14/why_the_world_isnt_flat?page=full
.

15
The median person
Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill,
Creating an Opportunity Society
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), 127.

16
A child born into
Ross Douthat, “Does Meritocracy Work?”
The Atlantic
, November 2005,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/does-meritocracy-work/4305/
.

17
Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose
Douthat, “Does Meritocracy Work?”

18
Public-education spending
Eric Hanushek, “Milton Friedman’s Unfinished Business,”
Hoover Digest
, Winter 2007,
http://edpro.stanford.edu/hanushek/admin/pages/files/uploads/friedmanhoover_digest.pdf
.

19
A mother with two kids
Haskins and Sawhill, 46.

20
If you read part
Margaret Bridges, Bruce Fuller, Russell Rumberger, and Loan Tran, “Preschool for California’s Children: Unequal Access, Promising Benefits,”
PACE
Child Development Projects, University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (September 2004): 9,
http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/pace/reports/PB.04-3.pdf
.

21
About half the students
Haskins and Sawhill, 223.

22
Isabel Sawhill has calculated
Haskins and Sawhill, 42.

23
If you get married before
Haskins and Sawhill, 70.

24
Wilkinson and Pickett point
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett,
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
(London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 75

25
“Low-income families”
Haskins and Sawhill, 101.

26
As James Heckman argues
James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov, “The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children,” Invest in Kids Working Group, Committee for Economic Development, Working Paper 5 (October 4, 2004): 3,
http://jenni.uchicago.edu/Invest/FILES/dugger_2004-12-02_dvm.pdf
.

27
But social and emotional skills
Heckman and Masterov, 28-35.

28
Small classes may be better
Malcolm Gladwell, “Most Likely to Succeed,”
The New Yorker
, December 15, 2008,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_gladwell
.

29
The City University of New York
Marc Santora, “
CUNY
Plans New Approach to Community College,”
New York Times
, January 26, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/education/26college.html?fta=y
.

30
“Every new scene”
Alexander Hamilton, “Report on Manufactures,” December 5, 1791, University of Chicago Press,
The Founders’ Constitution
,
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s31.html
.

31
He believed in using government
Ron Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton
(New York: Penguin Press, 2004).

32
“I hold the value of life”
Abraham Lincoln, Speech to Germans in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1861,
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, vol. 4 (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 203.

33
“The true function of the state”
Theodore Roosevelt, “Social Evolution,” in
American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political
, vol. 2 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907), 154.

34
“In political activity”
Michael Oakeshott, “Political Education,” in
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
(London: Methuen, 1977), 127.

35
Milton wrote
Paradise Lost
Thomas Sowell,
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
(London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1985), 14.

CHAPTER
21:
THE
OTHER
EDUCATION

1
the muscles around the jaw
Atul Gawande, “The Way We Age Now,”
The New Yorker
, April 30, 2007,
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/30/070430fa_fact_gawande
.

2
40 percent end up
Gawande, “The Way We Age Now.”

3
While many neurons die
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Cindy Lustig, “Brain Aging: Reorganizing Discoveries About the Aging Mind,”
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
15 (2005): 245-51,
http://www.bus.umich.edu/neuroacrp/Yoon/ReuterLorenzLustig2005.pdf
.

4
air traffic controllers
Louis Cozolino,
The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008), 172.

5
Laura Carstensen
Stephen S. Hall, “The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/magazine/06Wisdom-t.html
.

6
John Gabrieli of MIT
Hall, “The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis.”

7
Norma Haan of Berkeley
Norma Haan, Elizabeth Hartka, and Roger Millsap, “As Time Goes By: Change and Stability in Personality Over Fifty Years,”
Psychology and Aging 1
, no. 3 (1986): 220-32, “
http://www.psych.illinois.edu/~broberts/Haan%20et%20al,%201986.pdf
“:http://www.psych.illinois.edu/~broberts/Haan%20et%20al,%201986.pdf.

8
People achieve a level
George Vaillant,
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
(New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2002), 254.

9
“By the time we reach”
Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman,
Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth
(New York: Free Press, 2006), 211-212.

10
The Grant Longitudinal Study
Vaillant, 99-100.

11
“One of my teachers compares”
Daniel J. Siegel,
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being
(New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2007), 62.

12
“But gradually your eyes”
Siegel, 159.

13
Tibetan monks or Catholic nuns
Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman,
Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs
(New York: Free Press, 2006), 175.

14
“In the Pentecostal tradition”
Newberg and Waldman,
Why We Believe What We Believe
, 203-205.

15
philosopher Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton,
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a Besieged World
(New York: Encounter Books, 2007), 41.

16
“Mine is no callous shell”
Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass
(New York: Penguin Books, 1986), 53.

17
“While human nature largely”
Jonah Lehrer,
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007), 140.