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 […]
Diego Gambetta on Signaling Theory
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Diego Gambetta, a professor of social theory at the European University Institute in Florence, discussing his research around signaling theory and the applications of his work, whether addressing courtship, organized crime of hailing a cab.
Video: Polarization During COVID-19
What might be one of the most severe effects of the pandemic. According to two psychologists who contributed to the book Together […]
Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News
Our work in recent years has focused on how to prevent people from falling for misinformation in the first place, building on a framework from social psychology known as inoculation theory.
I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal
I claimed that New Mexico is part of the Galapagos Islands, that craniotomy is a legitimate means of assessing student learning, and that all my figures were made in Microsoft Paint. Any legitimate peer reviewer who bothered to read just the abstract would’ve tossed the paper in the garbage (or maybe called the police).
No One Can Ensure Total Safety… We Must Fight Pandemic of FEAR
With this pandemic, argues Robert Dingwall, fear amplification has been policy, based on the advice of a particular group of behavioral scientists advising the United Kingdom’s government.
Start Talking Now About Life After Jabs Make COVID Less Deadly Than the Flu
The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality of what […]
Let’s Incite Subversively Responsible Management Practices!
According to the author of the book ‘Principles of Management,’ we have to mind the management practices that make and potentially break our world even if, and especially if they seem so mundane and ‘normal.’
Controlling the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Behavior
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extraordinary devastation, claiming millions of lives and disrupting the economy and daily life across the globe. From […]
