Author: Social Science Space

Mobilizing Social Science to Fight Ebola
Impact
October 22, 2014

Mobilizing Social Science to Fight Ebola

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Tirole Win Continues NSF/SBE Win Streak
Academic Funding
October 17, 2014

Tirole Win Continues NSF/SBE Win Streak

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Video: Sara Miller McCune and Daniel Kahneman Discuss Social and Behavioral Sciences
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October 16, 2014

Video: Sara Miller McCune and Daniel Kahneman Discuss Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Sociologist Jane Elliott In Place at Head of ESRC
Academic Funding
October 9, 2014

Sociologist Jane Elliott In Place at Head of ESRC

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Former Deputy Takes Over Bureau of Economic Analysis

Former Deputy Takes Over Bureau of Economic Analysis

The former deputy director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis has been named to head the federal organization that produces the benchmark […]

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To Honor Top Reviewer, Journal Opens Up Latest Issue

To Honor Top Reviewer, Journal Opens Up Latest Issue

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science has honored Achilles Armenakis, the James T. Pursell Sr. Eminent Scholar in Ethics at Auburn University, […]

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Stanford’s Eberhardt Receives MacArthur Fellowship

Stanford’s Eberhardt Receives MacArthur Fellowship

A social psychologist whose work examines how racial bias–unconscious but still present–impacts Americans’ perceptions and reactions to crime is one of 21 new recipients of the MacArthur ‘genius award.’

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Call for Papers:  Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020

Call for Papers: Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020

In 2013, the budgetary and regulatory reform of European Union Cohesion policy for 2014-20 was finally agreed following the most extensive process […]

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We Should Be Happy Federal Tax Dollars Funded Rat Massage

We Should Be Happy Federal Tax Dollars Funded Rat Massage

The latest winners of the Gold Goose Award for seemingly weird science with big practical benefits are researchers whose brush with lab rat love is now helping thousands of preemies.

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Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits

Engaging With the Untidy World of Nonprofits

What’s the best for a professional association to build engagement from its members? For one thing, notes Mark Hager in an award-winning paper, you probably can put away the souvenir tote bags.

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Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists

Who Takes Humanities Courses? A Lot of Social Scientists

Parsing federal education statistics, it turns out that prospective social scientists are the most avid consumers of humanities courses as undergrads (not counting humanities majors themselves, that is).

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European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach

European Scientists Fear Data Protection Overreach

Raising the drumbeat of alarm before a final European Parliament ruling later this year, a coalition of the continent’s research organizations have made explicit their opposition to new rules that they say would impede social science and medical research.

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