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 […]
What Does the Data Tell Us About Black Coaches, the NFL and Discrimination
There are a lot of factors that play into deciding on who to hire as a head coach in the NFL. Looking at the data, race is one of them.
Let’s Define ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
Looking at the entirety of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s clear that there was both legitimate protest and illegitimate political violence. When political violence replaces political discourse, and when political leaders refuse to play by the democratic rules of the game, democracies weaken, and may even die.
Does Gender Bias Influence What Gets Called ‘Soft Science’?
Across studies in research described here, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field.
Yizker Bikher: Eroding the Holocaust’s Goal of Erasure
Defying the Third Reich’s attempt to wipe Jewish culture off the map, ‘yizker bikher’ memorialize writers’ hometowns, commemorate murdered loved ones and pass on collective memory.
Collaboration Tackles COVID Through Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science Global Collaboration on COVID-19 brought experts together to assess how their field has contributed to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify possibilities for new research to answer unanswered questions.
There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices
The right-wing Heritage Foundation has accused university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices of spreading anti-Semitism on campuses, but its recently issued […]
MLK and His Impact on Social Science Scholarship
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth on January 15, 1929, we offer a selection of scholarship from the social science community that directly cites King’s message as a subject or the nexus of the paper.
Might the ‘Sore Loser Effect’ Legitimize Violence?
James Piazza concludes that when election losers in democracies reject election results, becoming “sore losers,” tribalism grows and political violence becomes less taboo.
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