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 […]
Recruiters Beware: Facebook Information May Not Predict Future Performance
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Chad H. Van Iddekinge who collaborated with Stephen E. Lanivich, Philip L. Roth, and Elliott […]
Much Ado About Piketty
Is the French economist and meteoric public intellectual our generation’s Marx (or Malthus)?
Are You Throwing Those Old Jeans in the Trash?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 15% of post-consumer textile waste is recovered each year, leaving a whopping 85% […]
NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items
UPDATED, While the FY2015 funding bill for science includes a record budget for the NSF, two paragraphs in the document are raising red flags in the social and behavioral science community.
What is Psychological Capital?
Since the release of his book Psychological Capital in 2006, Fred Luthans has toured the globe lecturing on the idea of positive organizational […]
Gerry Adams and Research Anonymity: How Far Do We Go?
After promising research subjects anonymity, a compelling reason — and the state’s compulsion — pushes us to renege on the promise. is that a mortal sin or a venal transgression? Mark Israel argues that sometimes it’s a necessary evil.
The Economist for the Rest of Us: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014
Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker, one of the University of Chicago economists who unshackled the dismal science from its focus on the behavior of money to the behavior of people, has died.
Does Innovativeness Play a Role in Hotel Profitabilty?
[We’re pleased to welcome Izabela Sandvik who collaborated with Dale F. Duhan and Kare Sandvik on their article “Innovativeness and Profitability: An […]
