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 […]
Katy Milkman on How to Change
Everyone, we assume, wants to be their best person. Few of us, perhaps, none, hits all their marks in this pursuit even […]
Bootcamp: Critical Thinking and Global Democracy
Information literacy is at the heart of fostering critical thinking skills, which are essential for questioning the status quo and developing informed […]
Critical Thinking and Global Democracy: Strategies for Navigating a Fraught Political Landscape
Learn from and engage with experienced librarians, behavioral scientists, and others at Sage’s fifth annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp, which is taking place on Tuesday, August 6
Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School and author of the just-released “May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It,” reviews the persistence of confirmation bias even among professors of finance.
‘Critical Ignoring’ May Be Just as Vital as Critical Thinking
Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.
Watch the Webinar: Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Misinformation
Amid an ever-increasing number of media outlets and social media platforms, the proliferation of misinformation makes evaluating information sources’ objectivity and reliability […]
‘Prebunking’ on YouTube in the Fight Against Misinformation
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help people spot […]
Working Alongside Artificial Intelligence Key Focus at Critical Thinking Bootcamp 2022
SAGE Publishing — the parent of Social Science Space – will hold its Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp on August 9. Leaning more and register here
