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 […]
US Getting a Permanent Chief Statistician After Two-Year Gap
Karin Orvis, an organizational psychologist who currently heads the Pentagon’s suicide prevention office, has been named the chief statistician of the United States, filling the role on a permanent basis for the first time since 2019.
Comparing Felt Responsibility for Ethical Purchasing in Professional and Personal Roles
Liz Cooper explains the motivation behind the paper she co-wrote with Ben Marder, “Role morality discrepancy and ethical purchasing: exploring felt responsibility […]
Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain Lecture Looks Across Disciplines at Decolonization
Vineeta Sinha, a sociologist whose research interests range from religiosity in the Hindu Diaspora and religion-state encounters to critiques of the social sciences’ infrastructure and rethinking classical sociological theory, will deliver the Inaugural UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Annual Lecture 2022.
Looking Inside Military Generals’ Charisma: The Workings of Top-Leaders’ Squires
There is a third type of actor in the leader-follower power construct, suggests Michael Sang.
Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think
The author warns that policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focused around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.
When Ignorance is Reassuring
David Canter considers the strange phenomena of Russians believing Putin’s propaganda.
Timeline of Psychology: A Quick Slideshow
This interactive timeline of some of the most important achievements in the field of psychology field as presented at the Introduction to Psychology website. On […]
Why Social Science? Because Changing Behavior is Essential to Addressing Climate Change
The challenge of climate change is enormous and requires an all-of-science effort. Psychologists must be part of the solution.
