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How the Psychology of Mask Wearing Can Encourage Mask Use
Insights
December 10, 2020

How the Psychology of Mask Wearing Can Encourage Mask Use

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On the Other Side of Racism Awareness: Interviews
Insights
December 9, 2020

On the Other Side of Racism Awareness: Interviews

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To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi
News
November 30, 2020

To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

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Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism
Communication
November 26, 2020

Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism

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Data Model Confirms That Wearing Masks Saves Lives

Data Model Confirms That Wearing Masks Saves Lives

Biplav Srivastava, professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina, and his team have developed a data-driven tool that helps demonstrate the effect of wearing masks on COVID-19 cases and deaths. His model utilizes a variety of data sources to create alternate scenarios that can tell us “What could have happened?” if a county in the U.S. had a higher or lower rate of mask adherence.

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The Trump Conundrum

The Trump Conundrum

David Canter, a psychologist observing from the United Kingdom, struggles to explain how Trump got 70 million votes in the United states

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Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

We expect to see confirmation bias play an active role in the politics, where there is a satisfying emotional payoff from assuming the worst of the other side. We do not expect the same phenomenon among highly educated professionals, especially in their seemingly well researched publications. And yet …

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Connective Consumption? Lockdown Life is Restructuring the Ways We Socialize

Connective Consumption? Lockdown Life is Restructuring the Ways We Socialize

People have had a host of responses to lockdown living, ranging from cutting off all contact with others, to maintaining not only […]

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Marketing Opportunities and the Commercialization of Social Sciences

Marketing Opportunities and the Commercialization of Social Sciences

The social sciences have a crucial role to play in the COVID-19 recovery, and in addressing many other challenges society faces. However, […]

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Beyond Plurality: Ideas for Replacing U.S. Electoral College

Beyond Plurality: Ideas for Replacing U.S. Electoral College

Political scientist Joshua Holzer identifies a number of proven electoral strategies used elsewhere that could replace the United States’ Electoral College.

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Blessed are the Trusting, For They Are More Likely to Vote

Blessed are the Trusting, For They Are More Likely to Vote

Whomever they vote for, says Cary Wu, Americans who are trusting are more likely to have either cast their ballots already or will on election day than Americans who do not trust easily.

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Salma Mousa on Contact Theory (and Football)

Salma Mousa on Contact Theory (and Football)

If differing groups could be brought together cooperatively – not competitively – in a manner endorsed by both groups and where each side met on an equal footing, perhaps we could, as Salma Mousa puts it in this Social Science Bites podcast, “unlock tolerance on both sides and reduce prejudice.”

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