Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Pandemic Nemesis: Illich reconsidered
An unexpected element of post-pandemic reflections has been the revival of interest in the work of Ivan Illich, a significant public intellectual […]
How ‘Dad Jokes’ Help Children Learn How To Handle Embarrassment
Yes, dad jokes can be fun. They play an important role in how we interact with our kids. But dad jokes may also help prepare them to handle embarrassment later in life.
Nominations Open for 2025 Sage-CASBS Award
The award recognizes achievement in the social and behavioral sciences that advances understanding of pressing social issues. Deadline: September 16, 2024.
Webinar – What Spurs Action on Climate Change?
Policies to combat rapid climate change have been met with resistance. This webinar will investigate the psychological factors inhibiting actions and policy […]
Beyond Net-Zero Targets: When Do Companies Maximize Their Potential to Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Companies with a better understanding of climate change, the authors argue, have realized the need to plan actions beyond the business level.
How Social Science Can Hurt Those It Loves
David Canter rues the way psychologists and other social scientists too often emasculate important questions by forcing them into the straitjacket of limited scientific methods.
Rob Ford on Immigration
Opinions on immigration are not set in stone, suggests Rob Ford – but they may be set in generations. Zeroing in on the experience of the United Kingdom since the end of World War II, Ford – a political scientist at the University of Manchester – explains how this generation’s ‘other’ becomes the next generation’s ‘neighbor.’
Fourth Edition of ‘The Evidence’: Do Women Make Better Doctors?
In this issue of The Evidence newsletter, journalist Josephine Lethbridge examines why women doctors see better outcomes in their patients’ health.
