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 […]
25 Years of ‘Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’
Allan Bloom has claimed there are no classics in the social sciences, but the editors of a special collection of essays on the impact of Gøsta Esping-Andersen’s book ‘The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’ on its 25th birthday suggest that in fact this book shows Bloom was mistaken.
Hope for the Common Good
Recent research suggests that the so-called Golden Rule of ‘doing unto others …’ may have resonance in enhancing the public good.
If Only MOOCs Could Add an eHarmony Component
We go to school for an education, not a mate. But if you don’t find a mate at school, you are not getting as much return out of the experience as you can. Which brings us, in a new Danish study, to one issue with online classes …
Fixing the ‘Leaky Pipeline’ of Women in Science and Math
There are ways to patch the pipeline that sees women drain out of STEM fields in university and on the job, but it will take some effort to dismantle structural barriers first.
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 […]
Make a Charitable Donation of Your Personal Data
You donate your money to charity, your blood to other and your time to special causes. So why not give of your data for science research?
Discrimination through Ambiguity: Reducing Workplace Bias Against Minority Immigrants
Discrimination becomes easier when its wrapped in the amorphous blanket of an applicant lacking certain ‘soft skills,’ suggests a news paper in the journal Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
The Social Scientist Who Knew Torture Wasn’t Worth the Game
Game theory neatly — and sadly — predicted the futility of using torture to extract meaning information from terror suspects, neatly predicting the results of the recent U.S. Senate report years before its release.
