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PIBBS Volume 5 Issue 1

Science Writer Articles

Is Social Science Really Experiencing a Crisis?

April 25, 2019

Mainstream media frequently cover findings from psychological research, but until recently, the field itself was rarely the subject of intense public scrutiny. That has changed in recent years amid a so-called “replication crisis” – a pattern of …

Changing Broader Social Stereotypes is Our Best Chance of Ending Implicit Bias

September 20, 2018

Educated and enlightened?  Chances are you’re discriminating and don’t even realize it.

“If you do nothing and just try not to discriminate, you’re going to discriminate,” explains B. Keith Payne, co-author with Heidi A. Vuletich of “Policy …

Places Can Be Prejudiced, Too

June 29, 2018

The problem of prejudice is often discussed but remains widespread. One of the reasons may be that we’re not looking for solutions in the right places; in fact, too often we aren’t looking in places at all.…