Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Monsters, playboys, virgins and whores: Rape myths in the news media’s coverage of sexual violence From Language and Literature Gentlemen prefer red: A […]
Major problems with the recent Gay-parenting study come to light, “predictive policing” aims to prevent crime, and social science insights helping to make sense of climate change. These and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News!
This week more Olympic sites. See our reading list on race and sport. This includes free access to a relevant podcast from […]
Free press vs. free speech? The rhetoric of “civility” in regard to anonymous online comments From Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly A psychological […]
Olympic Games. Of course this week’s key story is the London 2012 Olympics. HM Government Olympic Communication newsroom. Acts as a central […]
In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast
Social Scientists protest biased study targeting LGBT parents, Chinese girls outperforming boys and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.
Being in a relationship that others disapprove of From Journal of Social and Personal Relationships The evolution of atheism scientific and humanistic approaches From […]