Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Academic staff have been working harder than ever, and after an incredibly tough 18 months they are now prioritizing their wellbeing as a top concern. What can academic publishers learn from this?
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Molefi Kete Asante offers an insiders view of the growth of the Afrocentric paradigm, from the founding of the Journal of Black Studies a half century ago to the debates over critical race theory today.
Our mixed feelings about reporting the deaths of vaccine sceptics, says Nick Chater, reflect the complexity of our moral selves – consequences, rules, agreements and virtues can pull us in different directions.
Twenty years ago the second edition of one of the more influential books in social science, Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, appeared.
There is inequality in the United States, a fact most people accept and which data certainly bears out. But how bad do you think that inequality is, say, based on comparing the wealth held by the average Black person in America and the average white person?
During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, writes Stephen Reicher, and they led to disastrous policies.
Every July, as stars and stripes flare and then dissipate over the course of a week, I struggle to untangle my discomfort […]