Neil Lewis, Jr.
Assistant Prof @Cornell & @WeillCornell | Assistant Director @PsySciAcc | Columnist @ScienceMagazine's @SciCareersLTYS | Research on motivation & goal pursuit.
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When and How Negative News Coverage Empowers Collective Action in Minorities - Muniba Saleem, Ian Hawkins, Magdalena E. Wojcieszak, Jessica Roden,
Minorities often express dissatisfaction and frustration with media depictions of their ingroup motivating them to engage in strategies that can restore a posit...
3 Reasons It’s So Hard to “Follow Your Passion”
For most of us, passion wanes over time.
3 Win Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences For Work In Reducing Poverty
Abhijit Banarjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer will share the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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"Our goal is to make sure that the fight against poverty is based on scientific evidence...the poor are reduced to caricatures and often, even people who try to help them do not actually understand what are the deep roots of the problem."
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So you want to study technology, democracy, and social change?
How to choose and apply to an interdisciplinary PhD program
An Open Path to the Future: Perceived Financial Resources and School Motivation - Mesmin Destin, 2017
One contributing factor to gaps in academic achievement may be that some students perceive long-term educational goals, such as college, as financially out of r...
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2/4. And it's not just me. Destin studied the effects of learning about these policies and found that low-income students taught about need-based aid were more likely to envision a career that includes going to college, and were more motivated in school.
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How Did You Choose Which College to Attend? | Inside Higher Ed
A question for my wise and worldly readers.
The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots At The Top
Elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail.
Heavenly Bodies: NASA’s Famed Twins Study has Begun to Yield Results
After extensive data gathering and analysis—plus a worldwide media Frenzy—NASA’s famed Twins Study has begun to yield results.
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This is a pretty powerful application of single case design and team science. Researchers measured a variety of processes during Scott Kelly's time in space, and are now learning a lot about stress on the body by comparing him to his identical twin.
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City of St. George incorporates
A nearly six-year battle to incorporate the southeast portion of East Baton Rouge Parish into a new city named St. George ended during Louisiana’s primary election held Saturday, Oct. 12. Voters in the proposed city limits decided for incorporation.
Voters Near Baton Rouge Want Better Schools. First, They Need a New City.
A group has tried unsuccessfully for years to create a new school district in East Baton Rouge Parish. This time, they want to establish a city of their own.
Social Media Elements, Ecologies, and Effects
This review delineates core components of the social media ecosystem, specifying how online platforms complicate established social psychological effects. We assess four pairs of social media elements and effects: profiles and self-presentation;...
Opinion: Microbiome research needs a gut check
Colonic cleanses, ‘raw water’ and even probiotics might not live up to all the hype and can be dangerous to your health
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"In this era of misinformation, scientists must take extra care not to hype their work. Indeed, we need the scientific community...to speak up when science is being misrepresented. We need credible voices to explain what is and isn’t currently possible."
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RSF Launches New Pipeline Grants Competition with the Bill and
RSF president Sheldon Danziger: "[The Pipeline Grants Competition] will provide a much-needed new source of funding for early and mid-career researchers who are under-represented in the social
Beware of Automated Hiring
It won’t end employment discrimination. In fact, it could make it worse.
Who Supports Diversity Policies? It Depends on the Policy
A survey of 1,862 workers breaks down attitudes by race and gender.
Trump Ordered to Turn Over 8 Years of Tax Returns to the Manhattan D.A.
A judge rejected the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigations.
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"In a 75-page ruling, Judge Marrero called the president’s argument that the Constitution shields sitting presidents from any criminal investigation 'repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values.'”
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SPSSI Journals
As neighborhoods that were predominantly White become more racially and ethnically diverse, many Whites in those communities respond with feelings of threat and political shifts to the right. Trump's...