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High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes
AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science... -
How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,... -
Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...
Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across... -
The reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical ...
The aim of this study was to explore the reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical wholesalers in Finland. The study... -
Separating conditional and unconditional cooperation in a sequential Prisoner...
Most theories of social exchange distinguish between two different types of cooperation, depending on whether or not cooperation occurs conditional upon the partner’s previous... -
Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest...
Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper... -
Social scientists' testimony before Congress in the United States between 194...
Congressional hearings are a venue in which social scientists present their views and analyses before lawmakers in the United States, however quantitative data on their... -
What are fair study benefits in international health research? Consulting com...
Background Planning study benefits and payments for participants in international health research in low- income settings can be a difficult and controversial process, with... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing
Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. In this study, we tested the ability to... -
Good and Bad Research Collaborations: Researchers' Views on Science and Ethic...
There has been a dramatic rise in the scale and scope of collaborative global health research. A number of structural and scientific factors explain this growth and there has... -
Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no... -
Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit exp...
A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment,... -
Preference evaluation of ground beef by untrained subjects with three levels ...
After receiving bad publicity in 2012 and being removed from many ground beef products, finely textured beef (referred to as 'pink slime' by some) is making a comeback. Some of... -
Relative solidarity: Conceptualising communal participation in genomic resear...
OBJECTIVE: As genomic research gathers momentum in sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly important to understand the reasons why individuals wish to participate in this... -
Case selection and causal inferences in qualitative comparative research
Traditionally, social scientists perceived causality as regularity. As a consequence, qualitative comparative case study research was regarded as unsuitable for drawing causal... -
Challenges to implementing national comprehensive sexuality education curricu...
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is... -
Development of a knowledge translation platform for ataxia: Impact on readers...
AbstractBackgroundDissemination of accurate health research information to patients and families has become increasingly important with the rise of the internet as a means of... -
The Design Help Desk: A collaborative approach to design education for scient...
: Visual design, learning sciences, and nanotechnology may be strange bedfellows; yet, as this paper highlights, peer interaction between a designer and a scientist is an...
