Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
NAS to Organize Planning Meeting on Possible Development of K-12 Behavioral and Social Sciences Education Framework
The National Academies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) will be awarded funding for a planning meeting to determine whether to conduct a full panel study to develop a framework for kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) behavioral and social sciences education.
New UK Campaign for Social Science
The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) will next week launch a major campaign to promote UK social science and raise its visibility […]
What happened to theory in the 21st century?
The last two decades have brought to psychology a renewed attempt to integrate both new forms of cognition (embodied, distributed cognition) as […]
Work-Life Balance
“Work–Life Balance?: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Everyday Home–Work Dynamics” by Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley, and Gill Musson was one of the top downloaded […]
Reform of English laws on free speech
The British government has confirmed that it will introduce a Defamation Bill in the spring, to change the law on libel and […]
Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, […]
The value of history to public policy
Statements such as ‘knowing about history helps us to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past’ are commonplace. There is no doubt […]
Is CSR Worthwhile to Firms?
“Doing Good And Doing Better Despite Negative Information? The Role Of Corporate Social Responsibility In Consumer Resistance To Negative Information” by Andreas […]
