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 […]
Strategic Contracting and Negotiation Journal Seeks Top Paper
The Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, which launched last year as the official journal of the International Association for Contract and Commercial […]
Pushing the Boundaries: Studying the Boundaryless Creative Careers of Film Directors
Creative careers can differ quite a bit from the average 9-to-5 desk job, but only some go so far as to defy […]
Book Review: The Problem with Work
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Kathi Weeks; Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, 304 pp., $23.95 ISBN […]
Hands-free Technology is Not Enough to Prevent Distracted Driving
Putting down your phone is merely the first step in banishing distractions while you drive, according to research in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.’ In fact, asking Siri to do something at a remove is pretty darned dangerous, too.
Reviewing Family Firm Succession Literature with a Social Exchange Perspective
[We’re pleased to welcome Joshua Daspit of Mississippi State University. Dr. Daspit recently published an article in Family Business Review with co-authors […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Sam Miles
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Sam Miles’ question of whether greater exposure to the cyberworld is creating a dystopia or a utopia.
Timeline of US Government and Social/Behavioral Science
Vannevar Bush’s post-war review of American science priorities set the tone for the federal funding of social and behavioral science ever since.
