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 […]
Stereotype threat occurs when an individual is afraid of confirming a negative stereotype about a group to which he or she belongs and, in a cruel irony, performs worse because of it. Research shows the phenomenon is real and can sabotage affirmative action.
British universities are changing at rapid pace, notes Daniel Nehring in the first of a new series of article on the so-called corporate university. The consequences of these changes are cause of concern for many academics, who worry about their working conditions and the future of academic freedom.
[We’re pleased to welcome Mary Dickey of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Dickey recently published “Program Evaluation of a […]
America’s own ‘nudge unit’ celebrates its first birthday with a report outlining the low-cost ways that applied social and behavioral research is improving government services, saving money and raising revenue.
Psychology is still digesting the implications of a large study published last month, in which a team led by University of Virginia’s […]
Well-known for his work in organization theory, Gareth Morgan explored the use of metaphors to help examine organization problems in his 1986 […]
[We’re pleased to welcome Lena Steinhoff of the University of Paderborn in Germany. Dr. Steinhoff recently collaborated with Andreas Eggert of University […]
The use of humor in public discourse about science has grown remarkably over the past few years, and when used in science […]