Public Policy

Too Much Crime Fiction at the Election: Politicians Warned Over Misleading manifesto Claims
News
April 29, 2015

Too Much Crime Fiction at the Election: Politicians Warned Over Misleading manifesto Claims

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False Confessions, True Consequences: Why and How to Reform Interrogations  
PIBBS
April 21, 2015

False Confessions, True Consequences: Why and How to Reform Interrogations  

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COSSA Statement on the House America COMPETES  Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R.  1806)
Academic Funding
April 17, 2015

COSSA Statement on the House America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806)

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What do MPs Think of Randomised Controlled Trials?
International Debate
April 14, 2015

What do MPs Think of Randomised Controlled Trials?

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Exploring The Genetic Basis of Enlistment

Exploring The Genetic Basis of Enlistment

How much – or how little – do genes contribute to the decision to enter the military? A lot, according to the first effort to pin down an answer to that question. One of the researchers answers questions about the study.

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Cimate Debate About Values, Not Data

Cimate Debate About Values, Not Data

To move forward on climate change, argues Andy Hoffman, we have to disengage from fixed battle on one scientific front and seek approaches that engage people who are undecided about climate change on multiple social and cultural fronts.

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Preserving SBE Funding — A No-Brainer?

Preserving SBE Funding — A No-Brainer?

Social and behavioral science doesn’t get near the respect on Capitol Hill that sciences looking at the physical brain receive. A recent hearing suggests that spotlight on neuroscience might yet reflect positively on its unloved cousin.

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Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

Campaigning for Social Science: Public Sociology and ‘Public Sociologists’

The arrival of a report calling for the British government to better support social science has raised questions about the role, responses and responsibilities of a ‘public sociology.’

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How Do We Improve the Process of Government Improvement?

How Do We Improve the Process of Government Improvement?

Would federal government agencies benefit from having a CEO — that is, a chief evaluation officer?

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Social Scientists Swarm Capitol Hill for a Day

Social Scientists Swarm Capitol Hill for a Day

With a new Congress expected to take up old causes that might not sit well with the science community, a consortium of social and behavioral science associations brought the message home to legislators that social science was part of their district, too.

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Rethinking Our Responses to Terrorism

Rethinking Our Responses to Terrorism

Understanding what drives terrorism offers a good first step in deterring or derailing it. In the latest article from our collaboration with the journal ‘Policy Insights from Brain and Behavioral Science,’ two psychologists examine what motivates terrorism — and how our response to it can succor the bad actors.

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Book Review: Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF

Book Review: Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF

Publication of the results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework evaluation of the quality of work undertaken in all UK universities last December attracted much attention. Ron Johnston reviews a book that savagely criticizes the peer reviews undertaken at the heart of the REF but also the mock exercises as universities prepared their submissions.

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