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DBASSE - TOPICS
Aging Behavior and Cognition Children, Youth, and Families Defense and National Security Economy and the Workforce Education Humans, Systems, and Technologies Law, Crime, and Justice National Surveys and Statistics Population and Demography Research Quality and Use Society and the Environment Testing and Assessment
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Behavior and Cognition |
The behavioral and cognitive sciences seek to understand how the human mind works and learns, how people make decisions, how they behave, and how they function under stress. Our reports and workshops have explored how this research could inform policies in a range of areas, from education to mental health to intelligence analysis. And in setting research agendas, we strive to move the behavioral and cognitive sciences in directions that will provide further policy-relevant knowledge. See also: |
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The Science of Team Science
The NRC is conducting a consensus staudy on the science of team science to recommend opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of collaborative research in science teams, research centers, and institutes.....
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Risk Management and Governance Issues in Shale Gas Extraction
A steering committee established by the National Research Council will organize two workshops to examine the range of social and decision-making issues in risk characterization and governance relatd...
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 | Human Performance Modification: Review of Worldwide Research with a View to the Future
(BBCSS)
2012
The development of technologies to modify natural human physical and cognitive performance is one of increasing interest and concern, especially among military services that may be called on to defeat...
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 | The Subjective Well-Being Module of the American Time Use Survey: Assessment for Its Continuation
(CNSTAT)
2012
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS), conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, included a subjective well-being (SWB) module in 2010 and 2012. The module, funded by the National Institute on Aging...
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 | Deterrence and the Death Penalty
(CLAJ)
2012
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory,...
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 | The Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue
(BOHSI)
2011
Nearly everyone experiences fatigue, but some professions--such as aviation, medicine and the military--demand alert, precise, rapid, and well-informed decision making and communication with little...
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 | Threatening Communications and Behavior: Perspectives on the Pursuit of Public Figures
(BBCSS)
2011
Today's world of rapid social, technological, and behavioral change provides new opportunities for communications with few limitations of time and space. Through these communications, people leave...
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 | Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations
(BBCSS)
2011
The U.S. intelligence community (IC) is a complex human enterprise whose success depends on how well the people in it perform their work. Although often aided by sophisticated technologies, these...
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 | Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences
(BBCSS)
2011
The intelligence community (IC) plays an essential role in the national security of the United States. Decision makers rely on IC analyses and predictions to reduce uncertainty and to provide warnings...
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 | Issues in Commuting and Pilot Fatigue:Interim Report
(BOHSI)
2011
The potential for fatigue to negatively affect human performance is well established. Concern about this potential in the aviation context extends back decades, with both airlines and pilots agreeing...
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