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17 Sep 2008, 8:00 am
Entitled "Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior," authors Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman convey a series of anecdotes and social psychology experiments that demonstrate the biases that drive people regularly to make decisions that are comically foolish, at best, and tragically misguided, at worst. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 3:37 am by Russ Bensing
Despite the generally-accepted observation that a committee is a dark alley down which ideas are lured to be strangled, the penchant for addressing any problem by throwing some people in room and hoping they can resolve it is irresistible. [read post]
1 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
We have become this way because the inclination to treat a fellow human being as irredeemably unworthy of membership is, for many people, irresistibly seductive. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 6:42 pm
And, like litigators' mother's milk, there is the irresistible psychopathic urge to try to game the proceedings. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 5:08 am by Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, guest-blogging
  And in fact, I don’t have time to do a proper job — I am on the road this week — but the temptation to say just a bit in response to my old friends David and Ilya is irresistible. [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 6:00 am by Jon Robinson
  In Eysselinck, the Fifth Circuit specifically applied the “irresistible impulse” test: “Eysselinck has the burden of proving the decedent’s suicide was the result of an irresistible impulse to kill himself. [read post]
2 Sep 2006, 4:12 am
Maybe you are seeking an irresistible marketing hook or a knock-your-socks-off client service concept. [read post]
2 Sep 2006, 4:12 am
Maybe you are seeking an irresistible marketing hook or a knock-your-socks-off client service concept. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 4:00 am
Enjoy your weekend away from all those irresistible lawyers :P [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 6:52 am
"This has been obvious for decades to anyone who crunched the numbers, but the fantasy of recycling plastic proved irresistible to generations of environmentalists and politicians.... [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 10:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
He's always got the new data, featuring irresistible twists: One in five students use extra money from their student loans to buy digital currencies. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 4:25 am by Jack Bogdanski
A four-day holiday weekend, such as the one we just had, presents an irresistible temptation for these people. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 9:24 pm by James Hamilton
As more and more bi-partisan bills emerge, such as one codifying the end-user exemption from some Title VII requirements, the momentum for a Dodd-Frank corrections bill will become inexorable and irresistable. [read post]
15 Jul 2013, 8:42 pm
The guys/gals that figure they'll retire at O-6 (Colonel or (Navy/Coast Guard) Captain) and are almost there, can probably tell the President (figuratively) to kiss-off, but the pressure on those who aspire to the higher ranks to conform to a publicly-stated political policy of the C-in-C is often irresistible. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 12:35 pm
In a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided, he wrote: "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions," but "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."... [read post]
29 Nov 2014, 2:53 am
His 'Dream' speech, though deeply rooted in his faith, appealed not to the authority of religion but to the common language, irresistible to all, or almost all, of justice and moral order and practical benefit. [read post]