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Dr. Carlotta Arthur Named New Executive Director of Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at National Academies

Following a national search, Carlotta M. Arthur will join the National Academies as the new executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education on Feb. 14.




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Case studies and theory development in the social sciences [Electronic book] / Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2005]




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Research in social sciences and technology [electronic journal].

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bulent Tarman




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World review [electronic resource] : environmental and sustainability education in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals / editors, Marco Rieckmann, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Department of Education, University of Vechta, German

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press , 2024.




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Procedural justice training reduces police use of force and complaints against officers [Social Sciences]

Existing research shows that distrust of the police is widespread and consequential for public safety. However, there is a shortage of interventions that demonstrably reduce negative police interactions with the communities they serve. A training program in Chicago attempted to encourage 8,480 officers to adopt procedural justice policing strategies. These...




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Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19 [Social Sciences]

Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because deaths have been concentrated at older ages, we highlight the important role of demography, particularly, how the age structure of a population may help explain differences in fatality rates...




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Reply to Bowling: How specific emotions are primary in subjective experience [Social Sciences]

Our study in PNAS (1) applies a mathematically based framework to the study of reported emotional experience evoked by music in the United States and China. Germane to theoretical debate, our methods reveal how specific emotions such as “triumph” are more primary across cultures than valence and arousal, a finding...




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Claims of categorical primacy for musical affect are confounded by using language as a measure [Social Sciences]

Cowen et al. (1) leverage modern gains in data science to describe impressive cross-cultural similarities in the perception of musical affect and do so in unprecedented detail. Their approach is innovative and fundamentally empirical. As such, it should have important applications for prediction in the field of affective computing, which...




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Reply to Schild et al.: Antisocial personality moderates the causal influence of costly punishment on trust and trustworthiness [Social Sciences]

A growing literature at the intersection of personality psychology and behavioral economics investigates the interplay between personality and decision making in social dilemmas (1, 2). Engelmann et al. (3) extend prior research in this area by investigating the role of antisocial personality in the context of a trust game with...




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Multiple antisocial personalities? [Social Sciences]

Engelmann et al. ask whether “personality traits [can] help us better understand economic behavior across strategic contexts” (ref. 1, p. 12781), and, as an answer to this, identify “an antisocial personality profile” (APP) (ref. 1, p. 12785). There is much to like about this investigation; in particular, it illustrates “that...




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Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences [Electronic book] / Jaan Valsiner, editor.

Cham : Springer, 2020.




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SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES [Electronic book].

[S.l.] : SPRINGER NATURE, 2020.




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The first outstanding 50 years of "Università Politecnica Delle Marche" [Electronic book] : research achievements in social sciences and humanities / Sauro Longhi [and more], editors.

Cham : Springer, 2020.




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Institute of Social Sciences

Institute of Social Sciences




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Handbook of research methods in health social sciences / Pranee Liamputtong, editor




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Bioethics, public health, and the social sciences for the medical professions: an integrated, case-based approach / Amy E. Caruso Brown, Travis R. Hobart, Cynthia B. Morrow, editors

Online Resource




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Statistical methods for the social sciences / Alan Agresti

Agresti, Alan, author




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Student's solutions manual : statistical methods for the social sciences, fifth edition / James Lapp

Lapp, James, author




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GIS and the social sciences: theory and applications / Dimitris Ballas, Graham Clarke, Rachel S. Franklin and Andy Newing

Rotch Library - G70.212.B35 2018




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Lewis Fry Richardson: his intellectual legacy and influence in the social sciences / Nils Petter Gleditsch, editor

Online Resource




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Decision making in social sciences: between traditions and innovations / Daniel Flaut, Šárka Hošková-Mayerová, Cristina Ispas, Fabrizio Maturo, Cristina Flaut, editors

Online Resource




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Technium Social Sciences Journal [electronic journal].

Technium Science




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Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CRJSSH) [electronic journal].




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Adam Academy Journal of Social Sciences / Adam Akademi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [electronic journal].

Anakara Thought and Research Center




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Climate change and the UN Security Council / edited by Shirley V. Scott (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Australia), Charlotte Ku (School of Law, Texas A&M University, USA)




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Youth employment and training programs [electronic resource] : the YEDPA years / Charles L. Betsey, Robinson G. Hollister, Jr., and Mary R. Papageorgiou, editors ; Committee on Youth Employment Programs, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Ed




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Regulation, governance and convergence in the media / Peter Humphreys, Formerly School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, UK; Seamus Simpson, University of Salford, UK

Hayden Library - K4240.H86 2018




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Academic capitalism in the social sciences




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New items for Applied Social Sciences - CASS

Durham University Library