Research

Round-up of Social Science Research
Communication
January 30, 2015

Round-up of Social Science Research

Read Now
Make a Charitable Donation of Your Personal Data
Public Policy
January 13, 2015

Make a Charitable Donation of Your Personal Data

Read Now
Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants
PIBBS
January 12, 2015

Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants

Read Now
The Social Scientist Who Knew Torture Wasn’t Worth the Game
International Debate
December 22, 2014

The Social Scientist Who Knew Torture Wasn’t Worth the Game

Read Now
Political Learning in the Struggle: Perspectives From the Egyptian Diaspora

Political Learning in the Struggle: Perspectives From the Egyptian Diaspora

In a cross-posting with Social Science Space partner Viva Voce podcasts, Helen Underhill at the University of Manchester describes how Egyptians living outside their native land respond to the political turmoil there, and how there is not single ‘Egyptian voice’ that speaks for them all.

Read Now
Finding Clarity for Our Most Basic Emotions

Finding Clarity for Our Most Basic Emotions

Sociologist Thomas Scheff argues that the terms for basic emotions, especially in English, are ‘wildly ambiguous.’ So he set out to determine conceptual guidelines for grief, fear/anxiety, anger, shame and pride as a step toward giving them consistent and useful academic meanings.

Read Now
Round-up of Social Science Research

Round-up of Social Science Research

The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]

Read Now
A Few Caveats for Budding Social Media Research Mavens

A Few Caveats for Budding Social Media Research Mavens

Behavioral scientists have seized on social media and their massive data sets as a way to quickly and cheaply figure out what people are thinking and doing. But some of those tweets and thumbs ups can be misleading.

Read Now
Women’s Own Behavior Boosts Gender Disparity in Academia

Women’s Own Behavior Boosts Gender Disparity in Academia

Concerns about gender equity in academia are persistent and sadly not new. A recent paper details evidence that women may inadvertently contribute to gender disparities in conference presentations by requesting lower profile roles. What can be done to address that?

Read Now
Round-up of Social Science Research

Round-up of Social Science Research

The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 700 journals. The articles linked below are free […]

Read Now
Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System: Research for a Fairer Future

Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System: Research for a Fairer Future

In the aftermath of the grand jury decision not to prosecute a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen, a paper in a new journal from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences looks at the bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Read Now
A Guided Tour of Post-Publication Review Sites

A Guided Tour of Post-Publication Review Sites

Andy Tattersall continues his discussion of post-publication peer review and provides an overview of the main tools and sites, from publisher platforms to independent forums, offering some kind of comment, discussion or review system for scholarly content.

Read Now
[mailpoet_form id="1"]