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  • 17 Nov 2016
    Cass R. Sunstein

    Mad Men and Manipulation: An Excerpt from The Ethics of Influence

    The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science is Cass R. Sunstein’s investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, choice architecture and mandates. Read on for an excerpt from the book. Fifty Shades of Manipulation Chapter 5 of The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavorial Science by Cass R. Sunstein It […]

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  • 15 Nov 2016
    Statistics Using Stata
    Sharon Lawner Weinberg, Sarah Knapp Abramowitz

    Candy and Crime

    Sharon Lawner Weinberg & Sarah Knapp Abramowitz authors of Statistics Using Stata give us an insight into Chapter 5 of their new book: Chapter 5, Exploring Relationships Between Two Variables.

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  • 9 Nov 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Speaking Up on Behalf of Resistance

    With the 2016 election come and gone, Bert Spector reflects on leadership and resistance

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  • 8 Nov 2016
    Statistics Using Stata
    Sharon Lawner Weinberg

    Statistics Using Stata: An Integrative Approach

    With many decades of combined teaching experience to both undergraduate students at a liberal arts university and to graduate students at a large research university from a variety of disciplines including education, psychology, health, and policy analysis, we have direct knowledge of how varied the mathematical backgrounds are of students who enroll in an introductory […]

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  • 7 Nov 2016
    R. Keith Sawyer, Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer

    Learning Sciences: A Virtual Round-table (Week Four)

    Last week, we asked the editors of Reflections on the Learning Sciences how to leverage digital media to create innovative environments This week, we ask: What are some misconceptions about learning sciences? Participants:  Michael A. Evans, North Carolina State University Martin J. Packer, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Michael A. […]

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  • 5 Nov 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Leadership and Hubris

    In Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership.  Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and open issues for new options.”  In their disinclination to be constrained by the status quo, they are generators of […]

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  • 31 Oct 2016
    R. Keith Sawyer, Michael A. Evans, Martin J. Packer

    Learning Sciences: A Virtual Round-table (Week three)

    Three experts discuss learning sciences in week three of a seven week long virtual round-table discussion.

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  • 26 Oct 2016
    Tetris - Richard Haier
    Richard Haier

    Proof That Tetris Makes You Smarter

    Richard J. Haier, author of The Neuroscience of Intelligence explains the concept of neuroplasticity and shows how playing the video game Tetris changes the brain.

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