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“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,” the poet Robert Browning once opined, “or what’s a heaven for?” That’s not a very satisfying maxim for someone trying to lose weight, learn a language, or improve themselves in general on this earthly plane. But there are ways to maximize one’s grasping ability, and that’s an area where psychologist Ayelet Fishbach can help. Fishbach, the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses goals and motivations in the latest Social Science Bites podcast.
In the wake of the essay “On Measuring Social Science Impact” by Ziyad Marar, a number of scholars are offering their own views on what impact means in the social and behavioral sciences.
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What did social and behavioral science contribute to the fight against the coronavirus and what were lessons specifically applicable to addressing the impact of COVID-19?
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What changes did the pandemic and its associated effects bring to society writ large, now in the future? Will headline changes to education, to business, to human interaction, last beyond the moment?
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What larger lessons can social and behavioral science draw from the pandemic? How will we generalize from the specfic examples in research methodology, in intersdisciplinary collaboration, in teaching?
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Here you’ll find a range of resources based on social and behavioral science for researchers, instructors, students, policymakers—as well as the general public— to help you educate, inform, research and learn.
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The SAGE Perspectives blog highlights topical and interesting research published in SAGE books and journals. The blog includes posts from across a wide range of subject disciplines and research areas.
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SAGE Publishing founder Sara Miller McCune's biography, Being SAGE: The First 55 Years, now in its third edition, is available as a free download for readers of Social Science Space.
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A study published this month, “How Academic Freedom Is Monitored,” aims to assist STOA in the creation of its monitoring platform. The study, authored by Gergely Kováts and Zoltán Rónay of the European Parliamentary Research Service, reviews the existing approaches used to monitor academic freedom and presents new policy options.
Just as trans people are not a new population, backlashes against trans rights have a long history.
In 2008, I published my book Visible Learning, which aimed to explain what works best to help student learning. At the time, others claimed it was the world’s largest evidence-based study into the factors that improve learning.
After a two-year vacancy, the United States Office of Research Integrity has named a permanent director. Sheila Garrity.
These sustainability business instructors discuss the “rollercoaster” of emotions business students encounter when discussing sustainability content.
Drawing on a study of physicists, Harry Collins and Will Mason-Wilkes argue in-person meetings are still vital in creating and sustaining academic communities.
Artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model could make completing college coursework as simple as asking a computer questions and getting answers at the click of a button (to the prospective horror of some professors). In fact, 61 percent of college students say using AI tools will become the new normal, but does that new normal involve students learning or machines learning?
Sales promotions usually list the discount before the restriction. But is this “good news then bad news” structure really the best practice?
As the computational devices used in all aspects of project delivery are becoming progressively smaller and cheaper, digital information is changing what projects deliver, with information becoming itself a deliverable.
David Canter considers whether ‘all-purpose’ police forces a no longer fit for purpose.
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