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True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It
Insights
July 17, 2023

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

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Social Science Research Council Turns 100: Interview with President Anna Harvey
Impact
July 10, 2023

Social Science Research Council Turns 100: Interview with President Anna Harvey

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Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight
Social Science Bites
July 5, 2023

Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

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Exploring the Nexus of ‘Benevolent’ Sexism and Entrepreneurship
Business and Management INK
June 21, 2023

Exploring the Nexus of ‘Benevolent’ Sexism and Entrepreneurship

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Are We Unnecessarily Using Diagnostic Frameworks Beyond Health Settings?

Are We Unnecessarily Using Diagnostic Frameworks Beyond Health Settings?

Diagnosis is so important to understanding our lives and those around us that it’s often applied outside of the health setting.

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Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days

Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days

Between the 1780s and 1930s, more than 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.

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Unskilled But Aware: Rethinking The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Unskilled But Aware: Rethinking The Dunning-Kruger Effect

As a math professor who teaches students to use data to make informed decisions, I am familiar with common mistakes people make when dealing with numbers. The Dunning-Kruger effect is the idea that the least skilled people overestimate their abilities more than anyone else. This sounds convincing on the surface and makes for excellent comedy. But in a recent paper, my colleagues and I suggest that the mathematical approach used to show this effect may be incorrect.

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Heaven Crawley on International Migration

Heaven Crawley on International Migration

Heaven Crawley, who heads equitable development and migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, discusses how the current Western picture of migration is incomplete and lacks nuance, both of which harm efforts to address the issue.

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Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity

Obaro Ikime, 1936-2023: Scholar of Nigerian and African Identity

Obaro Ikime died on 25 April 2023, aged 86. He fought valiantly, and ultimately successfully, to get the discipline of history restored to Nigerian higher education.

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Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations

Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1937-2023: Nobel Laureate and Pioneer of Rational Expectations

Robert “Bob” Lucas Jr., an economist, educator and Nobel Prize in Economics laureate, died May 15. He was 85.

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Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order

Bear Braumoeller, 1968-2023: Prescient Observer of the International Order

Bear Braumoeller, a political scientist and computational social scientist whose work on international conflict in today’s world seemed especially prescient after Russia’s war on Ukraine, has died

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Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor

Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor

The idea that the poor are impoverished morally as well as materially, that they lack humanity as well as means, has a long history.

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