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Cliches about only being as old as you feel are starting to have scientific backing
We’ve heard all the cliches about aging: “You’re as young [or old] as you feel.” “Age is just a number.” “You’re not getting older, you’re getting better.” “Seventy is the new 50.” Well-intentioned, perhaps. Offensive, to some. Patronizing, to be sure. But could they be true? Maybe science has started to catch up with these tired phrases. Researchers have discovered that many people feel good about themselves as they get older. One study, for example, found that as people get older, they consistently say they feel younger — much younger — than their actual age.
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Ask Me First: What Self-Assessments Can Tell Us about Autism
Just moments earlier, the teenager had been laughing so hard he was in tears. He had spent the day doing improv and other drama-based activities—part of a six-week summer camp in Boston designed to help children with autism build social skills. But when his mother showed up and asked about his day, the boy clammed up. “Do you mean you just sat in a corner and stared at the wall all day?” psychologist Matthew Lerner asked him. It was the summer of 2006 and Lerner had launched the program with a colleague two years earlier. He had witnessed the boy’s giggle fit and hoped to prompt more of a response. “Yes,” the boy replied.
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NSF Funding for Advancing Basic and Applied Data Sciences – Proposals Due May 15, 2018
The US National Science Foundation invites proposals for the agency-wide BIGDATA program, which funds novel approaches in the interdisciplinary field of data science, including potential applications in the social and behavioral sciences.
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NIH Funds Collaborative Research in Brain and Nervous Systems Disorders
The Global Brain Disorders Research Program, funds collaborative projects that allow US-based institutions (and those in other upper-middle income countries) to partner with institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICS) to build research capacity, train local scientists, and tackle research questions and interventions to mitigate negative environmental effects on brain health.
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Special Initiative on Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge Accepting Inquiries
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) has launched a special initiative, Integrating Biology and Social Science Knowledge, which will capitalize on new theories, concepts, and data from the biological sciences to advance research in RSF core programs in social inequality, behavioral economics, the future of work, and race, ethnicity, and immigration. The initiative is intended to integrate biology into social science models and social and environmental circumstances into biological models in order to further the understanding of how environments influence behaviors and socioeconomic outcomes. A detailed letter of inquiry must precede a full proposal.
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Russell Sage Foundation Seeking Applicants for Visiting Scholars Program
The Russell Sage Foundation is seeking applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, and behavioral sciences to pursue their research and writing at the foundation in New York City (NYC). Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the foundation’s core programs and special initiatives. The fellowship period is September 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. Scholars are provided with an office at the foundation, research assistance, computers, library access, and supplemental salary support. Scholars from outside NYC are provided with a partially-subsidized apartment near RSF.
