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 […]
Frank Keil on Causal Thinking
As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]
Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain
Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, it can be a cardinal […]
Does Trump’s ‘Common Sense’ Equal a War on Social Science?
Donald Trump’s executive actions have to a surprising extent focused on education and knowledge production. Philip N. Cohen argues beyond their short-term implications, these measures represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research.
When Common Sense is Neither
It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment […]
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.
