As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she […] The post Julia Ebner on Violent Extremism appeared first on Social Science Space.
The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that – relationships. And those relations generally start with […] The post Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System appeared first on Social Science Space.
Economist Daron Acemoglu, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the history of technological revolutions in the last millennium and what they may tell us about artificial intelligence today. The post Daron Acemoglu on Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Social Science Space.
How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of research The post Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature appeared first on Social Science Space.
Megan Stevenson's work finds little success in applying reforms derived from certain types of social science research on criminal justice. The post Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work appeared first on Social Science Space.
Opinions on immigration are not set in stone, suggests Rob Ford – but they may be set in generations. Zeroing in on the experience of the United Kingdom since the end of World War II, Ford – a political scientist at the University of Manchester – explains how this generation’s ‘other’ becomes the next generation’s ‘neighbor.' The post Rob Ford on Immigration appeared first on Social Science Space.
Economist Tavneet Suri discusses fieldwork she's done in handing our cash directly to Kenyans in poor and rural parts of Kenya, and what the generally good news from that work may herald more broadly. The post Tavneet Suri on Universal Basic Income appeared first on Social Science Space.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School and author of the just-released "May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It," reviews the persistence of confirmation bias even among professors of finance. The post Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias appeared first on Social Science Space.
Caring makes us human. This is one of the strongest ideas one could infer from the work that developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik is discovering in her work on child development, cognitive economics and caregiving. The post Alison Gopnik on Care appeared first on Social Science Space.
Tejendra Pherali, a professor of education, conflict and peace at University College London, researches the intersection of education and conflict around the world. The post Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict appeared first on Social Science Space.
In an age where things like facial recognition or financial software algorithms are shown to uncannily reproduce the prejudices of their creators, this was much less obvious earlier in the century, when researchers like Safiya Umoja Noble were dissecting search engine results and revealing the sometimes appalling material they were highlighting. The post Safiya Noble on Search Engines appeared first on Social Science Space.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas details how ritual often serves a positive purpose for individuals – synchronizing them with their communities or relieving their stress. The post Dimitris Xygalatas on Ritual appeared first on Social Science Space.
At the end of every interview that host David Edmonds conducts for the Social Science Bites podcast, he poses the same question: Whose work most influenced you? Those exchanges don’t appear in the regular podcast; we save them up and present them as quick-fire montages that in turn create a fascinating mosaic of the breadth and variety of the social and behavioral science enterprise itself. The post Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 5: A Social Science Bites Retrospective appeared first on Social Science Space.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Deborah Small, the Adrian C. Israel Professor of Marketing at Yale University, details some of the thought processes and outcomes that research provides about charitable giving. The post Deborah Small on Charitable Giving appeared first on Social Science Space.
On his institutional web homepage at the University of California-Los Angeles’s Anderson School of Management, psychologist Hal Hershfield posts one statement in big italic type: “My research asks, ‘How can we help move people from who they are now to who they’ll be in the future in a way that maximizes well-being?” The post Hal Hershfield on How We Perceive Our Future Selves appeared first on Social Science Space.
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. The post Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children appeared first on Social Science Space.
While it seems intuitively obvious that good management is important to the success of an organization, perhaps that obvious point needs some evidence given how so many institutions seem to muddle through regardless. Enter Raffaela Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School ... The post Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management appeared first on Social Science Space.
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. The post Carsten de Dreu on Why People Fight appeared first on Social Science Space.
Heaven Crawley, who heads equitable development and migration at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, discusses how the current Western picture of migration is incomplete and lacks nuance, both of which harm efforts to address the issue. The post Heaven Crawley on International Migration appeared first on Social Science Space.
Psychologist Shinobu Kitayama explores the cultural differences between Asia and America, the possible origins of those differences, and how the brain and body may reflect those differences. The post Shinobu Kitayama on Cultural Differences in Psychology appeared first on Social Science Space.