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In the 1960s, Melvin Lerner, an American social psychologist, proposed that people need to believe in a just world. This “just-world hypothesis” can be summarized as “individuals get what they deserve.” This is the widespread idea that there is no such th...
The exact role of artificial intelligence in higher education (and society itself) is currently being written, with sincere predictions veering from catastrophe to paradise gathering the greatest visibility. In this Quick Insight video, Baba Sheba, director of digital innovation ...
Here’s a couple of quick questions for you. What is the smallest of the eight discipline-based directorates at the United States’ National Science Foundation? The answer is the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, with a 2025 budget request of $320 million out of NSF’s total $10.18 billion. For comparison, the next smallest directorate, by budget, is En...
“Once again the season of the anti-sociologists is upon us…[a]curious admixture of illogic and sentiment…makes up the creed and canons of anti-sociology.” Those words come from Robert K Merton, writing in the New York...
The Canadian Science and Innovation Policy Conference is a forum for discussions on science, technology, and innovation policy, bringing together more than 1,000 participants and 300 speakers from government, academia, industry, and the nonprofit sector. The 18th annual conference is themed “Sovereignty by Design: Mobilizing Action to Reshape Canada’s Science, Technology, and...