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 […]
Back to School – ABCs
Just in time for the first days of school, Michelle Stack offers an A-to-Z lesson in concepts that should be packed in every university-level schoolbag.
One Strategy Does Not Fit All: A Look at Impression Management
Impression management describes the act of trying to control the first impression someone might have of an individual. It refers to shaping […]
Illustrating the Intricacies of Team Communication
Illustrating communication and conversation in organizational teams is easier than it seems–all you need is a ball of string. The recent Management Teaching […]
Harvesting the Opportunities in Psychology, Open Science and Government
In this column from the Association for Psychological Science, David Yokum, a leader of the Obama administration’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, details what that nudge team has been doing.
Social Networking Sites as an Emerging Organizational Form
Because the landscape of the digital industry is always changing, its organizational structures have to be more malleable in form; the development […]
African Academics Prey to (Academic Journal) Predators
In the past few years there has been an insidious rise in predatory journals and publishers, notes Adele Thomas, and African academics have not been immune to their predation.
Manufactured Controversy: Adam Perkins, the Psychological Imagination and the Marketing of Scholarship
The content of scholarly debates is increasingly secondary to the instrumentalization of scholarship in the promotion of one’s brand,” says our Daniel Nehring. It may not matter much that this brand is built on — academically at least — somewhat dubious welfare bashing, as long as the right markers of scholarly status are attached to it.
A Visual Approach to Professional Communication
[We’re pleased to welcome Deborah C. Andrews of University of Delaware, author of the article “Making the Familiar Strange: Thinking Visually in […]
