Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundationās Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, explains David Dunning, comes when āpeople who are incompetent or unskilled or not expert in a field lack expertise to recognize that they lack expertise. So they come to conclusions, decisions, opinions that they think are just fine when theyāre, well, wrong.ā
Harvard University economic historian Claudia Goldin studies the origins, causes and persistence of the gender pay gap in the United States, which she discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Political economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of the influential 1995 book The State Weāre In, offers a state-of-the-field report on the social sciences in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Batja Mesquita, a social psychologist at Belgiumās University of Leuven where she is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, theorizes that what many would consider universal emotions ā say anger or maternal love ā are actually products of culture.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Bobby Duffy offers some key takeaways from the book and his research into the myths and stereotypes that have anchored themselves on generational trends.
Quite often the ideas of āriskā and of āuncertaintyā get bandied about interchangeably, but thereās a world of difference between them. Thatās a key message from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.
A lack of ability of numbers is a serious issue in the world, in particular in the developed world, says Ellen Peters. And she’s trying to do something about that.
The knowledge economy. Intellectual property. Software. Maybe even bitcoin. All pretty much intangible, and yet all clearly real and genuinely valuable. This is the realm where economist Jonathan Haskel of Imperial College London mints his own non-physical scholarship.