Jonathan Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1007-2393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Virtual regulation: Can immersive virtual reality be used to assist intergroup interventions? The moderating effect of political ideology
While emotions are pivotal in intergroup conflicts, individuals are less motivated to feel peace-promoting emotions in extreme conflicts. In the current research, we investigated whether virtual reality (VR) can be harnessed to overcome this limitation by utilizing two of its features: (a) the ability to simulate reality in an immersive way, and (b) to allow people to experience a situation from different perspectives immersively. Two studies don…
One step forward, two steps back: The dark side of helping initiatives in protracted conflicts
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures since Karl Marx
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
A Restructured Hospital Into a One-Building Organization for Covid-19 Patients: A Resilient and Effective Response to the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique crisis challenging healthcare institutions as it rapidly overwhelmed hospitals due to a large influx of patients. This major event forced all the components of the healthcare systems to adapt and invent new workflows. Thus, our tertiary care hospital was reorganized entirely. During the cruising phase, additional staff was allocated to a one-building organization comprising an intensive care unit (ICU), an acute …
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
A social virus: Intergroup dehumanization and unwillingness to aid amidst Covid-19 − Who are the main targets
The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility
Global capital mobility is a crucial determinant of economic, political, and social life. While much has been written about the ethics of human movement, political theory has remained nearly silent on the ethics of capital movement. In this article, we intend to develop a general account of the ethics of global capital mobility-identifying both the forms of mobility that merit protection and those that merit restriction. By integrating normative …
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank by Sanford M. Jacoby
“The 1970s and 1980s were a disaster for America’s labor movement,” as Jacoby begins his chronicle of that movement’s efforts to recover in the decades afterward, by bending the “financialization” of the U.S. economy toward labor’s interests. The results, in his telling, may not have been disastrous, but they were, at best, mixed. One foundation for Jacoby’s account is historical—the “postwar system” of industrial relations. In it, American “corp…
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict
We present an experimental study conducted in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that examined the effect of immersive 360° video on inducing a more critical perception of the ingroup’s actions in the conflict. An immersive experience of a simulated conflict scenario filmed from the outgroup’s point of view led to the judgment of the ingroup actors’ behavior as less moral and less justified compared to watching the same scenario as a…
Radical uncertainty
Graded Empathy: A Neuro-Phenomenological Hypothesis
The neuroscience of empathy has enormously expanded in the past two decades, thereby making instrumental progress for the understanding of neural substrates involved in affective and cognitive aspects of empathy. Yet, these conclusions have relied on ultrasimplified tasks resulting in the affective/cognitive dichotomy that was often modeled and overemphasized in pathological, developmental, and genetic studies of empathy. As such, the affective/c…
The Neural Basis of Empathy and Empathic Behavior in the Context of Chronic Trauma
Background: Accumulating evidence in social neuroscience suggests that mature human empathy relies on the integration of two types of processes: a lower-order process mainly tapping into automatic and sensory mechanisms and a higher-order process involving affect and cognition and modulated by top-down control. Studies have also indicated that neural measures of empathy often correlate with behavioral measures of empathy. Yet, little is known on …
Primal Capital
Although the dynamics of capital are various, one dynamic is inescapably psychical. In this article, I argue in favor of a concept of what I call “primal capital,” in which capital is not only a “factor of production” but also consists of psychical processes. I proceed by way of reconstructing John Maynard Keynes’s account in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) of the owner of capital’s “propensity to hoard.” Keynes prese…
Community-Engaged Modeling of Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Multiple Public Health Risk Factors
Many health risk factors are intervention targets within communities, but information regarding high-risk subpopulations is rarely available at a geographic resolution that is relevant for community-scale interventions. Researchers and community partners in New Bedford, Massachusetts (USA) collaboratively identified high-priority behaviors and health outcomes of interest available in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). We deve…
Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism
In the wake of the Great Recession, a new cycle of scholarship opened on the history of American capitalism. This occurred, however, without much specification of the subject at hand. In this essay, I offer a conceptualization of capitalism, by focusing on its root-capital. Much historical writing has treated capital as a physical factor of production. Against such a "materialist" capital concept, I define capital as a pecuniary process of forwar…
Appreciating Assets: New Directions in the History of Political Economy
Modeling Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Infiltration in Low-Income Multifamily Housing before and after Building Energy Retrofits
Secondhand exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in multifamily housing remains a health concern despite strong recommendations to implement non-smoking policies. Multiple studies have documented exposure to ETS in non-smoking units located in buildings with smoking units. However, characterizing the magnitude of ETS infiltration or measuring the impact of building interventions or resident behavior on ETS is challenging due to the comple…
Ajay K. Mehrotra. Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929
During the 1910s a dramatic transformation in United States public finance occurred. From nothing in 1913, by 1920 progressive income taxes, replacing customs and excise taxes, became responsible for two-thirds of U.S. federal government revenue. Ajay K. Mehrotra has written a sweeping history of this revolution in U.S. public finance, which made the modern American fiscal state, “a new fiscal polity” that reallocated tax burdens from poor to ric…
Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital
Rather than being a timeless category, profit has a history as contingent and as eventful as any other. Focused on the United States, this article narrates a history of profit from the dissemination of early modern double-entry bookkeeping practices to the mark-to-market criteria of contemporary global capitalism. Profit, despite its changing accounting definitions, always concerns a rate over time. In addition to serving as a medium of competiti…
Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism By BrettChristophersNew York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--pub. desc
Transdisciplinary research strategies for understanding socially patterned disease: The Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (Access) project as a case study
As we have seen a global increase in asthma in the past three decades it has also become clear that it is a socially patterned disease, based on demographic and socioeconomic indicators clustered by areas of residence. This trend is not readily explained by traditional genetic paradigms or physical environmental exposures when considered alone. This has led to consideration of the interplay among physical and psychosocial environmental hazards an…
Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905
Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism
In the wake of the Great Recession, a new cycle of scholarship opened on the history of American capitalism. This occurred, however, without much specification of the subject at hand. In this essay, I offer a conceptualization of capitalism, by focusing on its root-capital. Much historical writing has treated capital as a physical factor of production. Against such a "materialist" capital concept, I define capital as a pecuniary process of forwar…
Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905
Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital
Rather than being a timeless category, profit has a history as contingent and as eventful as any other. Focused on the United States, this article narrates a history of profit from the dissemination of early modern double-entry bookkeeping practices to the mark-to-market criteria of contemporary global capitalism. Profit, despite its changing accounting definitions, always concerns a rate over time. In addition to serving as a medium of competiti…
The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility
Global capital mobility is a crucial determinant of economic, political, and social life. While much has been written about the ethics of human movement, political theory has remained nearly silent on the ethics of capital movement. In this article, we intend to develop a general account of the ethics of global capital mobility-identifying both the forms of mobility that merit protection and those that merit restriction. By integrating normative …
A social virus: Intergroup dehumanization and unwillingness to aid amidst Covid-19 − Who are the main targets
Primal Capital
Although the dynamics of capital are various, one dynamic is inescapably psychical. In this article, I argue in favor of a concept of what I call “primal capital,” in which capital is not only a “factor of production” but also consists of psychical processes. I proceed by way of reconstructing John Maynard Keynes’s account in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) of the owner of capital’s “propensity to hoard.” Keynes prese…
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict
We present an experimental study conducted in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that examined the effect of immersive 360° video on inducing a more critical perception of the ingroup’s actions in the conflict. An immersive experience of a simulated conflict scenario filmed from the outgroup’s point of view led to the judgment of the ingroup actors’ behavior as less moral and less justified compared to watching the same scenario as a…
Limiting Victim Impact Evidence and Argument after Payne v. Tennessee
Limiting Victim Impact Evidence and Argument after Payne v. Tennessee
Using HAC-Guided Responsive Journal Writing to Assess Problem Solving Abilities: Preliminary Correlations
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Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the United States, 1875–1905
Transdisciplinary research strategies for understanding socially patterned disease: The Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (Access) project as a case study
As we have seen a global increase in asthma in the past three decades it has also become clear that it is a socially patterned disease, based on demographic and socioeconomic indicators clustered by areas of residence. This trend is not readily explained by traditional genetic paradigms or physical environmental exposures when considered alone. This has led to consideration of the interplay among physical and psychosocial environmental hazards an…
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--pub. desc
Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital
Rather than being a timeless category, profit has a history as contingent and as eventful as any other. Focused on the United States, this article narrates a history of profit from the dissemination of early modern double-entry bookkeeping practices to the mark-to-market criteria of contemporary global capitalism. Profit, despite its changing accounting definitions, always concerns a rate over time. In addition to serving as a medium of competiti…
Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism By BrettChristophersNew York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Ajay K. Mehrotra. Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877–1929
During the 1910s a dramatic transformation in United States public finance occurred. From nothing in 1913, by 1920 progressive income taxes, replacing customs and excise taxes, became responsible for two-thirds of U.S. federal government revenue. Ajay K. Mehrotra has written a sweeping history of this revolution in U.S. public finance, which made the modern American fiscal state, “a new fiscal polity” that reallocated tax burdens from poor to ric…
Modeling Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Infiltration in Low-Income Multifamily Housing before and after Building Energy Retrofits
Secondhand exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in multifamily housing remains a health concern despite strong recommendations to implement non-smoking policies. Multiple studies have documented exposure to ETS in non-smoking units located in buildings with smoking units. However, characterizing the magnitude of ETS infiltration or measuring the impact of building interventions or resident behavior on ETS is challenging due to the comple…
Community-Engaged Modeling of Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Multiple Public Health Risk Factors
Many health risk factors are intervention targets within communities, but information regarding high-risk subpopulations is rarely available at a geographic resolution that is relevant for community-scale interventions. Researchers and community partners in New Bedford, Massachusetts (USA) collaboratively identified high-priority behaviors and health outcomes of interest available in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). We deve…
Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism
In the wake of the Great Recession, a new cycle of scholarship opened on the history of American capitalism. This occurred, however, without much specification of the subject at hand. In this essay, I offer a conceptualization of capitalism, by focusing on its root-capital. Much historical writing has treated capital as a physical factor of production. Against such a "materialist" capital concept, I define capital as a pecuniary process of forwar…
Appreciating Assets: New Directions in the History of Political Economy
The Neural Basis of Empathy and Empathic Behavior in the Context of Chronic Trauma
Background: Accumulating evidence in social neuroscience suggests that mature human empathy relies on the integration of two types of processes: a lower-order process mainly tapping into automatic and sensory mechanisms and a higher-order process involving affect and cognition and modulated by top-down control. Studies have also indicated that neural measures of empathy often correlate with behavioral measures of empathy. Yet, little is known on …
Primal Capital
Although the dynamics of capital are various, one dynamic is inescapably psychical. In this article, I argue in favor of a concept of what I call “primal capital,” in which capital is not only a “factor of production” but also consists of psychical processes. I proceed by way of reconstructing John Maynard Keynes’s account in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) of the owner of capital’s “propensity to hoard.” Keynes prese…
Radical uncertainty
Graded Empathy: A Neuro-Phenomenological Hypothesis
The neuroscience of empathy has enormously expanded in the past two decades, thereby making instrumental progress for the understanding of neural substrates involved in affective and cognitive aspects of empathy. Yet, these conclusions have relied on ultrasimplified tasks resulting in the affective/cognitive dichotomy that was often modeled and overemphasized in pathological, developmental, and genetic studies of empathy. As such, the affective/c…
Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict
We present an experimental study conducted in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that examined the effect of immersive 360° video on inducing a more critical perception of the ingroup’s actions in the conflict. An immersive experience of a simulated conflict scenario filmed from the outgroup’s point of view led to the judgment of the ingroup actors’ behavior as less moral and less justified compared to watching the same scenario as a…
National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and stricter hygiene) and endorsed public policy interventions (e.g., closing bars and restaurants) during …
A Restructured Hospital Into a One-Building Organization for Covid-19 Patients: A Resilient and Effective Response to the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is a unique crisis challenging healthcare institutions as it rapidly overwhelmed hospitals due to a large influx of patients. This major event forced all the components of the healthcare systems to adapt and invent new workflows. Thus, our tertiary care hospital was reorganized entirely. During the cruising phase, additional staff was allocated to a one-building organization comprising an intensive care unit (ICU), an acute …
Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to Covid-19 pandemic using machine learning
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied machine learning on the multi-national data collected by the International Collaboration on the Social…
A social virus: Intergroup dehumanization and unwillingness to aid amidst Covid-19 − Who are the main targets
The Ethics of Global Capital Mobility
Global capital mobility is a crucial determinant of economic, political, and social life. While much has been written about the ethics of human movement, political theory has remained nearly silent on the ethics of capital movement. In this article, we intend to develop a general account of the ethics of global capital mobility-identifying both the forms of mobility that merit protection and those that merit restriction. By integrating normative …
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank by Sanford M. Jacoby
“The 1970s and 1980s were a disaster for America’s labor movement,” as Jacoby begins his chronicle of that movement’s efforts to recover in the decades afterward, by bending the “financialization” of the U.S. economy toward labor’s interests. The results, in his telling, may not have been disastrous, but they were, at best, mixed. One foundation for Jacoby’s account is historical—the “postwar system” of industrial relations. In it, American “corp…
Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures since Karl Marx
Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias
While some studies show ideological asymmetry in outgroup bias between rightists and leftists, those studies often target an ideologically biased outgroup. Here, we bypass this issue by targeting the ideological outgroups (rightists for leftists, and leftists for rightists). We rely on a magnetoencephalography‐based approach delineating function‐specific neural mechanisms to test for ideological asymmetries at multiple levels: explicit psychologi…
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