Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Watch the Lecture: Social Science and the Post-Truth Pandemic
In an engaging and highly topical presentation viewable below, Trish Greenhalgh, professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton […]
How the Psychology of Mask Wearing Can Encourage Mask Use
Past research has shown that psychological factors such as an individual’s perception of risk and tendency towards risky behavior influence adherence to health behaviors. This is now being seen in the current pandemic.
On the Other Side of Racism Awareness: Interviews
Stuck in the US due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Brendon Fox decided to revisited themes from his doctoral research and conducted some follow-up interviews with young Black men about their racial experiences before, during and after college..
To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi
Ellen Hutti and Jenine Harris have quantified the extent to which female authors are represented in assigned course readings. In this blog post, they emphasize that more equal exposure to experts with whom they can identify will better serve our students and foster the growth, diversity and potential of this future workforce. They also present one repository currently being built for readings by underrepresented authors that are Black, Indigenous or people of color.
Video and Audio Resources on Structural Racism
Free webinar: Having conversations about race in the classroom Professor of criminal justice Stephanie A. Jirard offers suggestions on how to approach […]
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.
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
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 …
