The most frequent advice from Kip Jones to participants was, “Flip it!” Er, make that, “Flip it!” –Kip Jones’ most frequent workshop advice.

Social policy experts Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill have been named the 2016 winners of the 2016 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Science and technology systems are routinely monitored and assessed with indicators created to measure the natural sciences in developed countries. Ismael Ràfols and Jordi Molas-Gallart urge the creation of indicators that better reflect research activities and contributions in 'peripheral' spaces.

As we are often reminded, we urgently and drastically need to limit our use of one shared resource – fossil fuels – and its effect on another – the climate. But how realistic is this goal, both for national leaders and for us? Well, psychology may hold some answers.

“In a sense, you could summarize the literature: ‘Groups are bad for you, groups take moral individuals and they turn them into immoral idiots.’ I have been trying to contest that notion,” social psychologist Stephen Reicher says in this Social Science Bites podcast, “[and] also to explain how that notion com

The current A-Level exams in psychology taken by British teens reflect a curriculum focusing on 'problems' within individuals, argue two UK psychologists, rather than taking into account the influence of society on people’s actions and behavior.

Remember when Barbie made the stereotypical 'Math is hard!' comment? That sentiment is real, and unchecked it can be contagious. Luckily, however, math anxiety can be cured.

Corporate universities, argues our Daniel Nehring, have come to operate as self-enclosed power structures that are shielded from intellectually driven debate by their authoritarian structures and their anti-intellectual ethos.

In this archived version of a webcast held on February 17, Mark Vieth -- senior vice president of the Washington government relations firm CRD Associates – addresses these issues and others, including what the just-released federal budget from the White House means for federally funded research.

Jon Tennant takes a look at the transformations underway aimed at tackling the widespread dissatisfaction with the system of peer review. He provides further background on the platform ScienceOpen, which seeks to enable a process of transparent, self-regulating, peer review, where knowledge sharing is encouraged, valu

In the first of monthly series we’re calling Methods in Action, Mark Griffiths reprises his SAGE Research Methods case study “The Use of Behavioural Tracking Methodologies in the Study of Online Gambling” to explain how he and his research partner harnessed the big data possibilities of online gambling to both as

Legislation that requires that future grants made by the National Science Foundation meet a test for being in the 'national interest' passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday.