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 […]
Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science?
In a recent opinion piece in Miller-McCune Magazine, Anita Guerrini argues that discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 […]
Study: Ethical People More Satisfied With Life
In a recent Miller-McCune article, Tom Jacobs reports on the findings of Missouri economist, Harvey James, which point to a relationship between […]
#OWS: What took so long?
In a recent Miller-McCune article, Tom Jacobs looks at research by psychologists that links people’s reluctance to protest against Wall Street bailouts […]
Critical thinker explains skepticism vs. cynicism
D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism in an interview with Peter M. Nardi in Miller McCune magazine, and describes […]
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
Boredom can fuel hostility toward outsiders
In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both strengthen solidarity […]
Strong social bonds promote health, belonging — and torture
Tom Jacobs describes a recent study regarding the relationship between social bonds and dehumanization. It was no surprise when a recent meta-study […]
Raise that pulse, share that link
Tom Jacobs reports in Miller McCune Magazine on a recent study which finds anxiety, amusement, and even exercise, can compel people to share information. […]
