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 […]
A Behavioral Scientist’s Take on the Dangers of Self-Censorship in Science
The word censorship might bring to mind authoritarian regimes, book-banning, and restrictions on a free press, but Cory Clark, a behavioral scientist at […]
A Black History Addendum to the American Music Industry
The new editor of the case study series on the music industry discusses the history of Black Americans in the recording industry.
Your Data Likely Isn’t Best Served in a Pie Chart
Overall, it is best to use pie charts sparingly, especially when there is a more “digestible” alternative – the bar chart.
Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy
As he stands down from a two-year stint as the president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, or FABBS, Social Science Space took the opportunity to download a fraction of the experiences of cognitive psychologist Philip Rubin, especially his experiences connecting science and policy.
The Risks Of Using Research-Based Evidence In Policymaking
With research-based evidence increasingly being seen in policy, we should acknowledge that there are risks that the research or ‘evidence’ used isn’t suitable or can be accidentally misused for a variety of reasons.
Jonathan Breckon On Knowledge Brokerage and Influencing Policy
Overton spoke with Jonathan Breckon to learn about knowledge brokerage, influencing policy and the potential for technology and data to streamline the research-policy interface.
Dimitris Xygalatas on Ritual
In this Social Science Bites podcast, cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas details how ritual often serves a positive purpose for individuals – synchronizing them with their communities or relieving their stress.
Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective
At the end of every interview that host David Edmonds conducts for the Social Science Bites podcast, he poses the same question: Whose work most influenced you? Those exchanges don’t appear in the regular podcast; we save them up and present them as quick-fire montages that in turn create a fascinating mosaic of the breadth and variety of the social and behavioral science enterprise itself.
