Archives for 2021

New Year Honours List 2021 Celebrates Many in Social Science
Impact
January 21, 2021

New Year Honours List 2021 Celebrates Many in Social Science

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Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19
Videos
January 20, 2021

Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19

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To Share Research More Widely, Knock Down University Barriers
Impact
January 20, 2021

To Share Research More Widely, Knock Down University Barriers

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On the Persistence of Motivated Ignorance
International Debate
January 18, 2021

On the Persistence of Motivated Ignorance

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Martin Luther King’s Jr. Advice to Social and Behavioral Scientists

Martin Luther King’s Jr. Advice to Social and Behavioral Scientists

January 15, 1929, was the birthdate of Martin Luther King Jr. We take the opportunity of what would have been the civil rights leader’s birthday to recall his address before many of the leading American social and behavioral scientists of his day.

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NSF Seeks Social and Behavioral Proposals on Future of Work

NSF Seeks Social and Behavioral Proposals on Future of Work

The 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

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Words Matter: Shamelessly Normalizing Big Lies And Alternative Facts

Words Matter: Shamelessly Normalizing Big Lies And Alternative Facts

Rules 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!

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Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?

Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?

“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.

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‘Bukavu Series’ Addresses Power Dynamics in Fieldwork

‘Bukavu Series’ Addresses Power Dynamics in Fieldwork

Research 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.

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Video: Social Influence in the Age of COVID

Video: Social Influence in the Age of COVID

Near what we now know to be the lengthy saga of the COVID-19 pandemic, four psychologists collaborating remotely put together the edited […]

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The Sociology of Psychologies: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

The Sociology of Psychologies: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

Throughout 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

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Together Apart

Together Apart

Table of Contents Author Biographies Contributors Acknowledgements Section A: Setting the scene The need for a social identity analysis of COVID-19 A […]

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