US science policy: Press under pressure

In the press: Science and Public Policy

We advocate a scientometric, top-down, and institution-based research assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated-with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling 7 year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite ‘revo...

Public values and public failure in US science policy

Domestic science policy in the United States is linked inextricably to economic thinking. We seek to develop a practical analytical framework that confronts the manifest problems of economic valuing for science and technology activities. We argue that pervasive use of market valuation, market-failure assumptions and economic metaphors shapes the structure of science policy in undesirable ways. ...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Running Head: AUGMENTATION UNDER TIME-PRESSURE IN PRESS: BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY Augmentation in contingency learning under time pressure

Recent research suggests that cue competition effects in human contingency learning, such as blocking, are due to higher-order cognitive processes. Moreover, some experimental reports suggest that the effect opposite to blocking, augmentation, could occur in experimental preparations that preclude the intervention of reasoning mechanisms. In the present research, we tested this hypothesis by in...

Scholarly science policy models and real policy, RSD for SciSIP in US Mission Agencies

Do theories that describe how science and technology policy works accurately characterize programs that aim to contribute to societal benefit? How can the research performed by federal mission agencies contribute to improved decision making? The US Department of Agriculture, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology each have goals of performing resea...