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Key topics in social science research on COVID-19: An automated literature analysis.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Health information and libraries journal [Health Info Libr J] 2023 Dec; Vol. 40 (4), pp. 343-358. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 30.
Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a significant increase in academic research in the realm of social sciences. As such, there is an increasing need for the scientific community to adopt effective and efficient methods to examine the poten...
A Bayesian Approach Towards Missing Covariate Data in Multilevel Latent Regression Models.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Psychometrika [Psychometrika] 2023 Dec; Vol. 88 (4), pp. 1495-1528. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 23.
Abstract: The measurement of latent traits and investigation of relations between these and a potentially large set of explaining variables is typical in psychology, economics, and the social sciences. Corresponding analysis often relies on surveyed data from la...
Sustainability: draw on decades of social-science research.
Publication Type: Editorial & Opinion
Source(s): Nature [Nature] 2023 Oct; Vol. 622 (7982), pp. 242.
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) [Public Underst Sci] 2023 Jul; Vol. 32 (5), pp. 580-595. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 12.
Abstract: The public understanding of science has produced a large body of research about general attitudes toward science. However, most studies of science attitudes have been carried out via surveys or in experimental conditions, and few make use of the growin...
Why we need a Public Understanding of Social Science.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) [Public Underst Sci] 2023 Jul; Vol. 32 (5), pp. 658-672. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 12.
Abstract: Who is licensed to make knowledge claims about society? A more diffuse group of individuals are afforded the status of legitimate speakers on society in the public sphere than is the case when the questions relate to the expertise of the natural scienc...
The "Dravidian model": egalitarianism and healthcare reform.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Indian journal of medical ethics [Indian J Med Ethics] 2023 Jan-Mar; Vol. VIII (1), pp. 42-45.
Abstract: Throughout the post-independence period, the state of Tamil Nadu has consistently performed better than most other states in several major healthcare indicators, including infant mortality rate and total fertility rate. At the same time, it has receive...
Quality and constructed knowledge: Truth, paradigms, and the state of the science.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Medical education [Med Educ] 2023 Jan; Vol. 57 (1), pp. 23-30. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 25.
Abstract: Context and Truth: Education is a social science. Social science knowledge is related to its context of origin. The concept of global 'truth' in education is therefore of limited use when truth is tempered by context. The wider applicability of our kno...
The failure of gene-centrism.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e209. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: "Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science" is a compelling but limited critique. Phenotypic development is sensitive to both initial conditions and all subsequent states - from conception to senescence. Thus, gene-centric analyses...
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e230. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: We contend that social science variables are the product of multiple partly heritable traits. Genetic associations with socioeconomic status (SES) may differ across populations, but this is a consequence of the intermediary traits associated with SES d...
Evolution of conditional cooperation in collective-risk social dilemma with repeated group interactions.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Proceedings. Biological sciences [Proc Biol Sci] 2023 Sep 13; Vol. 290 (2006), pp. 20230949. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 06.
Abstract: The evolution and long-term sustenance of cooperation has consistently piqued scholarly interest across the disciplines of evolutionary biology and social sciences. Previous theoretical and experimental studies on collective risk social dilemma games h...