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 […]
Video: Reconsidering Congress: Where Do We Go from Here?
In this 30-minute video, C. Lawrence Evans, the Newton Family Professor of Government at Virginia’s William & Mary University, discusses the current complexion of the United States Congress during a particularly tumultuous time.
Video: Two Psychologies of COVID-19
In this 44-minute video, Stephen Reicher addresses what he sees as the two psychologies of COVID, working through the lens of social identity theory.
Video: Polarization During COVID-19
What might be one of the most severe effects of the pandemic. According to two psychologists who contributed to the book Together […]
Biden Makes Quick Moves to Get Social Science In Administration
In the lead-up and first days of his administration, the new U.S. president has made – or been presented – several moves that support social and behavioral science, including creating the nation’s highest ever advisory position with a specifically social science portfolio.
Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19
When it comes to COVID-19, we’re all in it together. That statement, while obvious, is not always how people react. Why is […]
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.
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
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 […]
