Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19
When it comes to COVID-19, we’re all in it together. That statement, while obvious, is not always how people react. […]
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When it comes to COVID-19, we’re all in it together. That statement, while obvious, is not always how people react. […]
2 hours agoSharing our findings beyond academia isn’t typically seen as part of our academic workload. This is problematic for academics who are already struggling to find time to do all the things their complex workload requires of them
2 hours agoThe idea that ignorance is the outcome of a deficit of correct information is persistent. Daniel Williams argues that to understand how research and evidence are strongly resisted by certain groups, we need to reflect on how motivated ignorance is deeply embedded in our identities and social connections.
3 days ago[Ed. note. – January 15, 1929, was the birthdate of Martin Luther King Jr. We take the opportunity of what […]
5 days agoThe NSF asked researchers across the social, behavioral and economic sciences are encouraged to submit proposals to the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research solicitation by March 23
6 days agoRules still apply, even when demagogues and populists are in power. What’s more, transgressions and discursive shifts happen slowly, frequently unnoticed. But words lead to deeds!
6 days ago“Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?” will be presented on January 14 as an online panel discussion, moderated by David Leonhardt of The New York Times and featuring the five scholars elected to the American Academy of Political and Social Science as 2020 fellows.
6 days agoResearch has long highlighted the importance of research associates and assistants in the production of knowledge, and the importance of locally embedded expertise – though often without giving them a voice. An online project seeks to address that.
1 week agoNear what we now know to be the lengthy saga of the COVID-19 pandemic, four psychologists collaborating remotely put together […]
1 week agoThroughout the 20th century, psychological knowledge managed to break free from the confines of academic debates and clinical practice, defining, by the early 21st century at the latest, how we think about who we are, how we feel, what our goals in life are, how we form relationships with others, and how society’s institutions operate
1 week agoDavid Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.
2 weeks agoA day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President […]
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