Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
What Can Yesterday’s Throwaways Tell Us About Sociocultural Branding?
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure seems to have been the case with Robert Opie, founder of Museum of Brands, Packaging […]
We Aren’t the World
Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
Islamic Cultures, Religious Affiliation, and Sex Outside of Marriage.
In our study we were interested in examining differences between religious groups and the dominant religious faith within nations in the likelihood that residents would engage in premarital or extramarital sex.
Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes
There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.
After Aurora, Expect PTSD to Spread Far Beyond Theater
Two studies of Virginia Tech students provide information on the likelihood and treatment of stress-related psychological symptoms following a mass shooting.
Perceptions of Trust in the Boardroom
Laura-Ann Migliore and Anshila Horton DeClouette published “Perceptions of Trust in the Boardroom: A Conceptual Model” in Online First in Journal of Leadership & […]
The impact of cuts on creativity
Can creativity flourish at a time when government funding for arts and humanities is being cut? That was the question under discussion […]
Retelling Tales of the Field
“Retelling Tales of the Field: In Search of Organizational ethnography 20 Years On” currently appears as one of the most frequently cited […]
