Tom Jacobs, Author at Social Science Space

Tom Jacobs

Tom Jacobs is a staff writer for Pacific Standard magazine. Through interviews, reviews, and essays, he has tracked and analyzed trends in the arts and sciences, with an emphasis on psychology, the role of culture, and the cultivation of creativity. A native of Chicago, Jacobs earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.

Trump partisans B&W

Explaining Donald Trump’s Hold on Many White Voters

New research conducted earlier in the current U.S. presidential campaign confirms the role that racial anxiety is playing for many white voters.

6 years ago

981

Latest

Detail of mural showing two workers and man in lab coat working at table

Where Does ‘Post-Naive’ Science Diplomacy Go From Here?

3 hours ago

49

Business and Management INK

An Unabridged View of Digital in the Built Environment

3 days ago

154

Detail of mural showing man and woman reaching for atoms and for dove

Seeing Past the Naiveté of Science Diplomacy to Discern Its Benefits

4 days ago

215

Graphic on Perspectives on Social Science Impact

Impact: Who Decides?

4 days ago

254

On Measuring Social Science Impact: An Excerpt

4 days ago

219

Grid showing the chief, clan, custodian, consortium model modes of governance for enterprise blockchains

Business and Management INK

The Boon and Bane of Blockchain

5 days ago

197

Criminologist Nancy La Vigne to Head U.S. National Institute of Justice

6 days ago

170

Five university students focused on computer screen

Higher Education Reform

‘Belonging’ on Campus: Three Ways to Make it So

1 week ago

201

Strings of data in green on computer screen

Another COVID Casualty: Pew Examines Americans’ View of Science

2 weeks ago

230

Interdisciplinarity

Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID

2 weeks ago

452

A large infographic from the World Health Organization outlines 12 points for safe use of non-medical cloth faces masks

SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance

2 weeks ago

255