“Participants became more confident in their own opinion after learning they were in the majority. But (they) then started doubting their own opinion significantly after the male holdout expressed anger.” In contrast, “when a female holdout expressed anger, participants became significantly more confident in their own opinion over the course of deliberation.”
Month: October 2015
New Director Of Detroit Institute Of Arts Lays Out A Vision
Salvador Salort-Pons: “I really see the DIA as playing a role in the city like town squares play a role in European cities. You go to Madrid, Rome, Barcelona or Paris, there are these main squares where people come and gather to talk, to drink coffee to read a newspaper. I see the DIA as the city square of Detroit.”
Plan To Revive New York City Opera Has Creditors’ Backing
“More than two years have passed since New York City Opera filed for bankruptcy, leaving in its wake large debts and a legal battle between two rival groups hoping to revive it. Now one of them has won the backing of an important constituency: the creditors who are owed money in the bankruptcy case.”
As Musicians Grow Frustrated, Philadelphia Orchestra Hires Consultant Michael Kaiser
“As talks continue between the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and musicians over a new labor pact, management has agreed to hire consultant Michael M. Kaiser to assist in addressing chronic big-picture challenges like fund-raising and strategic direction. Musicians have been frustrated in contract talks – not only with the financial details of the deals management has been floating, but also with the financial realities that appear to be underpinning those offers.”
Updating Shakespeare’s Language? They Used To Do It All The Time
“For poets, playwrights, editors, and actors from the seventeenth century through much of the nineteenth, Shakespeare’s language wasn’t intoxicating so much as intoxicated: it needed a sobering intervention. … Shakespeare’s script was the first problem that a production had to remedy. … So what changed? How did Shakespeare’s original texts regain their popularity?”
Marion True Does Not Deserve Our Sympathy, Says Archaeologist
“It’s worth stating again just a few of the things True admitted doing or is alleged to have done over a nearly 20-year career as curator. … She is no innocent scapegoat, nor is she a hero for calling attention to a problem she was helping to create.”
20 New Lines From The Epic Of Gilgamesh Discovered In Iraq, Adding New Details To The Story
“One of the oldest narratives in the world got a surprise update last month when the Sulaymaniyah Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that it had discovered 20 new lines of the Babylonian-Era poem of gods, mortals, and monsters.”
Iran Threatens To Boycott World’s Largest Book Fair Because Salman Rushdie Is Speaking There
Said the Islamic Republic’s deputy minister for culture and Islamic guidance, “This has been organised by the Frankfurt book fair and crosses one of our political system’s red lines. We consider this move as anti-cultural. Imam Khomeini’s fatwa on this issue is reflective of our religion and it will never fade away. We urge organisers to cancel his address.”
Thousands Stand In Line To See ‘China’s Mona Lisa’
“Since an exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Palace Museum [in Beijing’s Forbidden City] opened in early September, people have been waiting for up to 10 hours to see this 17-foot-long masterpiece attributed to the painter Zhang Zeduan, an intricate ink-on-silk tableau of life in the Northern Song dynasty capital, Kaifeng. The best-known painting in the museum’s vast collection, it has been shown in public only a few times.”
Duke University Gets $25 Million Donation For New Arts Center
“Duke University is expanding its arts programs with a new building and a $25 million gift from David Rubenstein, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees and a nationally known arts benefactor.” The 71,000-square-foot arts center “will include a dance studio along with a dozen multi-use studios, a 200-seat performance theater, a 100-seat film theater, a garden, lounge, library, reception space, a painting studio, offices and classrooms.”