Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
On the Persistence of Motivated Ignorance
The idea that ignorance is the outcome of a deficit of correct information is persistent. Daniel Williams argues that to understand how research and evidence are strongly resisted by certain groups, we need to reflect on how motivated ignorance is deeply embedded in our identities and social connections.
Martin Luther King’s Jr. Advice to Social and Behavioral Scientists
January 15, 1929, was the birthdate of Martin Luther King Jr. We take the opportunity of what would have been the civil rights leader’s birthday to recall his address before many of the leading American social and behavioral scientists of his day.
What I Have Learned from Social Science
Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.
The Social Science Podcast Guide
This compilation of podcast series covers a host of topics and focus on specific subjects that pertain to the social and behavioral […]
Reminded Anew: ‘A Lot of Room for Humility in Polling’
The latest American election made it evident that polls faltered, overall. And that misstep promises to resonate through the field of survey research.
Take Our Survey on Anti-Racist Research in the Social Sciences
This year has exposed a lot of glaring flaws in how modern society functions, not least of which its relationship with race […]
Alondra Nelson on Genetic Testing
In this Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist Alondra Nelson describes her particular interest in those root seekers whose antecedents were “stolen from African” in the slave trade who make up so much of the African diaspora.
What’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship
What is WeChat, and what does it do? Apart from ethnically suspect attacks on the platform itself, its ability to socially engineer discussion in China is a genuine concern.
