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 […]
The mental roots of racial prejudice
Italian researchers find social conservatives tend to attribute more negative qualities to members of a minority group regardless of race, religion or […]
How did students become ‘academically adrift’?
‘Academically Adrift’, a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergraduates don’t study, and professors don’t make them. A […]
Judges are more lenient after lunch
Miller-McCune magazine reports on a new study examining rulings made by Israeli parole board judges in relation to when they had taken […]
Cleanliness cues activate conservative attitudes
New research reported in Miller-McCune magazine finds subtle reminders of cleanliness seem to shift people to the political right. They may not […]
Are Facebook users narcissistic?
New research from Australia suggests that Facebook users are more extroverted and narcissistic than people who use the Internet but who don’t […]
I gave it a nudge but it won’t budge
New research suggests the superficial appeal of governing by light touch founders in the health arena where so many ‘unhealthy nudges’ are […]
Do Asian-American parents push their kids?
Does the Tiger Mother get it right? While some view Asian-Americans as pushy, stressing their children into exceptional achievement, research doesn’t bear […]
Toasting Government’s Good Ideas from 2010
Extract from an article by Emily Badger in the current issue of Miller-McCune magazine. Despite the past year’s bitter politics, the US […]
