Education
More Girls in STEM Means Improving STEM Teacher Training
Providing teachers with gender sensitivity training is a first step toward addressing gender inequality in STEM. But it’s not the last.
Tag: Psychology
Leadership
The Pitfalls of Praise
Many managers assume praise will support a positive working environment, and help employees open up to criticism or feel good about themselves. But in fact, praise perpetuates a scarcity myth—usually without us realizing it.
Human Rights
Changing the False Narrative That Conflates Gun Violence and Mental Illness
Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. Another spate of shootings in the United States spurs more conversations about the causes and contexts of gun-fueled murders. President Trump points to mental illness, an argument that many people have challenged, including SSIR author Kevin T. Kirkpatrick in this May 2017 article.
Health
Humanitarian Relief
The Contemplative-Based Resilience Project is using meditation to help aid workers stave off burnout.
Environment
Making Green Less Pink
Men find environmentally friendly products threatening to their masculinity.
Review
Organizational Development
Turning Empathy Inward
To function well, social organizations need to promote understanding of and compassion toward not just the people they serve but also their own employees.
Education
The Recipe for Youth Success
Too often both funders and practitioners fail to focus on the active ingredient in youth development: relationships.
Scaling
Three Questions That Transformed a Movement
Achieving marriage equality in the United States took time, tough questions, and coordinated efforts across politics, strategy, and messaging.
Economic Development
Choosing Nurture, Not Nature, to Improve Financial Decision-Making in America
Behavioral insights can inform low-cost, low-touch strategies for re-designing financial services that promote consumer well-being.
Advocacy
To Win Against False Information, We Must Play Offense
What should strategic communication in the public and social change sectors look like in a time marked by extreme political polarization and false information? Science suggests the key may be playing offense, rather than defense.