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Deborah Small on Charitable Giving
Social Science Bites
November 1, 2023

Deborah Small on Charitable Giving

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Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves
Insights
October 2, 2023

Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves

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Improving Well-being in Families of Children with Additional Needs
Business and Management INK
September 25, 2023

Improving Well-being in Families of Children with Additional Needs

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Efforts To Protect Endangered Minority Languages: Helpful Or Harmful?
Communication
September 11, 2023

Efforts To Protect Endangered Minority Languages: Helpful Or Harmful?

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Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children

Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children

In this Social Science Bites podcast, economist Melissa Kearney reviews the long-term benefits of growing up in a two-parent household and details some of the reasons why such units have declined in the last four decades.

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How Employees and Employers Can Encourage Psychological Safety In The Workplace

How Employees and Employers Can Encourage Psychological Safety In The Workplace

The individual ACT Matrix provides a framework for increasing psychological flexibility, fostering behavior change and increasing actions that are consistent with our values. It can be an effective intervention for promoting psychological safety in the workplace.

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Book Review: A Memoir Highlighting Scientific Complexity

Book Review: A Memoir Highlighting Scientific Complexity

In this brief, crisply written memoir, “In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems,” Parisi takes the reader on a journey through his scientific life in the realm of complex, disordered systems, from fundamental particles to migratory birds. He argues that science’s struggle to understand and master the universe’s complexity, and especially to communicate it to an ever-more skeptical public, holds the key to humanity’s future well-being.

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Customer Incivility: A Call for Constructive Resistance

Customer Incivility: A Call for Constructive Resistance

Conventional wisdom suggests that frontline employees should appease uncivil customers to resolve the unpleasant situation as quickly as possible and minimize the distraction and associated damage. However, this approach has not been effective in reducing or stopping customer incivility.

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Hidden Identities: Uncovering Gender Bias in Soccer Evaluation

Hidden Identities: Uncovering Gender Bias in Soccer Evaluation

if you couldn’t tell the gender of the players, would you find watching men’s or women’s soccer more enjoyable? A new study suggests the likely answer is … both.

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True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

Half of Americans say they enjoy true crime — stories portraying real-life instances of murder, kidnapping and other shocking crimes — and 35 percent say they consume true crime content at least once a week. Why are people, especially women, so fascinated with the genre, and how does interest in the who-done-it affect consumers’ thoughts and behaviors

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Social Science Research Council Turns 100: Interview with President Anna Harvey

Social Science Research Council Turns 100: Interview with President Anna Harvey

To celebrate the Social Science Research Council’s 100th anniversary, we interviewed SSRC president Anna Harvey.

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Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight

Trained as a social psychologist, Leiden University social psychologist Carsten de Dreu uses behavioral science, history, economics, archaeology, primatology and biology, among other disciplines to study the basis of conflict and cooperation among humans.

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