Coronavirus and SBS

Video: Social Influence in the Age of COVID
Resources
January 13, 2021

Video: Social Influence in the Age of COVID

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Harnessing the Power of a Mob
Insights
January 8, 2021

Harnessing the Power of a Mob

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MoVE Project: Pandemic Opened Door to Greater Volunteer Action
Public Policy
January 5, 2021

MoVE Project: Pandemic Opened Door to Greater Volunteer Action

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Why Does Social Science Not Bite?
Insights
January 1, 2021

Why Does Social Science Not Bite?

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2020 Proved Value of Social Science to Wider World

2020 Proved Value of Social Science to Wider World

If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear through this pandemic it is that a pandemic, like so many of the other really big and pressing issues facing us such as structural racism or climate change, are not problems to be faced by one discipline or sector alone.

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Watch the Lecture: Social Science and the Post-Truth Pandemic

Watch the Lecture: Social Science and the Post-Truth Pandemic

In an engaging and highly topical presentation viewable below, Trish Greenhalgh, professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton […]

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How the Psychology of Mask Wearing Can Encourage Mask Use

How the Psychology of Mask Wearing Can Encourage Mask Use

Past research has shown that psychological factors such as an individual’s perception of risk and tendency towards risky behavior influence adherence to health behaviors. This is now being seen in the current pandemic.

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DBASSE Event Focused on Social Science Responses to COVID’s Challenges

DBASSE Event Focused on Social Science Responses to COVID’s Challenges

An online seminar hosted by the NAS’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education featured a series of presentations on what can we do to lessen, reverse and even thrive in the face of changes wrought by the pandemic.

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What Have We Learned from COVID-19?

What Have We Learned from COVID-19?

This guide of freely accessible research compiled from SAGE’s Coronavirus Research collection provides insight on what COVID-19 has revealed these past months and how we can utilize these lessons moving forward.  

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The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters

Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.

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Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

Panel: How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19?

This panel, “How Can Social Statistics Help Us Fight COVID-19,” organized by the Campaign for Social Science and SAGE Publishing and held on September 21, featured three speakers giving their perspectives on the role of timely, appropriately representative, and reliable social statistics in informing the COVID-19 response and recovery planning.

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The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.

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