We connect researchers with interests in numerous social and behavioral science areas, promote collaboration across the Duke campus, and facilitate research teams' activities to create cutting-edge work on some of the most complex and urgent questions facing social scientists today.
We know that cheating on our diets or procrastinating on our stupid deadlines isn't worth it, but our stupid brains treat most future consequences as if they're worth nothing.
Grub on some local food and help social science research! Stop by the Duke Research Mobile at the Durham Food Truck Rodeo this Sunday. Oh, and you may even earn a few dollars to spend at the rodeo...
More than 50 kindergarten teachers, principals and central office staff from Wake County schools attended the pilot: Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow.
You may want to ask Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioural economics who has made a name for himself by studying why we often behave irrationally.
Evidence from a number of industries, from apparel and automobiles to electronics and even services, indicates that GVCs are often geographically concentrated in a few countries.
ABSTRACT: Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will...
Tables of data, like those you see in spreadsheets or relational databases, are the foundation of most data-driven research today. There are many pitfalls of working with these tables, though,...
Explore the basics of the R programming language for statistics and graphing in this introductory workshop. This hands on workshop covers the basics of getting help, loading, managing, graphing,...
Enter SSRI and you are surrounded by team rooms devoted to research and projects, a welcoming, large space known as The Connection, (featuring informal areas to cross paths on the way to coffee and refreshments), and extensive whiteboards and writable glass to facilitate instant exchange of ideas.
Seminars, classes and teams operating in the space are able to draw on an extensive social science data infrastructure backed up by a 21st century help desk (Connection Bar), providing assistance with data access, data management and social science methods. Sound exciting? Come join us!
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