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 […]
Violence Against Asians in U.S. Rests on Racism. Period.
Race can play a role in violence and prejudice, even if the offender does not clearly express a racist intent.
What a Chastened Discipline Can Teach All of Social Science About Open Science
A new article in PS: Political Science & Politics analyses psychological science in the aftermath of a “replication crisis” and “credibility revolution” and explicitly examines “what social scientists can learn from this story.”
Different Strokes on Transgenerational Entrepreneurship
The article “Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Roles of Religion and Tradition for Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses”, recently appearing in […]
NSF Letter Frames Concept of ‘Broader Impact’
In a “dear colleague” letter released March 18, the head of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) offers a framework for understanding how to think of broader impact i applying for grant funding.
The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.
Study: Black Students’ Trust in Their Colleges is Lower
Black undergraduates consistently said they trusted the people who run the colleges they attend – and society overall – substantially less than their white peers did. We have termed this difference the racial trust gap, and it was not a trivial difference.
Beyond Human – Everyday Bots and AI
As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, rather than […]
The COVID-19 Mental Health Curve
The mental health crisis triggered by COVID-19 is escalating rapidly. One example: When compared to a 2018 survey, U.S. adults are now eight times more likely […]
