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 […]
Include Me In: Social Sciences and the Innovation Deficit
With a little more wiggle room in the U.S. budget this year, proponents of strong federal support for R&D and higher education are trying to get their message out about America’s lagging innovation. Social science and the STEM fields are making common cause in the campaign.
How to Carefully Choose Useless Titles for Academic Writing
An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for. Without embedded cues, your work will sit undisturbed on other scholars’ PDF libraries, or languish unread among hundreds of millions of other documents on the Web. That must be what what we want, based on on what we do.
Trying to Improve Marketing Education?
Interested in developing your marketing instruction? Check out the Journal of Marketing Education‘s new Editor’s Choice collection titled “Evidence-Based Methods for Improving […]
Hey Oscar, Are Awards a Double-Edged Sword?
In a study drawn from the world of book awards, two academics suggest that overt and high-profile recognition can reduce the public’s perception of a winning work.
Are Awards a Double-Edged Sword?
The Oscars have been awarded! But just how does winning an award affect the prizewinner? Not the way you would think according […]
Behind the Scenes: Management Research on Film
Talk about films is in the air today as the Oscars/Academy Awards are telecast to a worldwide audience. This means it’s that time of […]
AERA Appoints Inaugural Editors for New Open-Access Journal
The American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education, has named three professors from […]
Citizen Scientists Should Have a Home in the Social Sciences, Too
Citizen social science calls on experts and the public to re-evaluate their roles in addressing social problems. Erinma Ochu, a social neuroscientist, elucidates the opportunities on offer when experts let the public in on the business of addressing these pervasive challenges. Real learning comes in the social life of the method – in the practice of listening, trying and often failing to collaborate – trying again and getting into the rhythm of the issue, together.
