Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...

The aim of applied sociology is claimed to be social amelioration through the application of the knowledge acquired by pure or basic sociology. For Ward, following Comte, applied sociology was to be ...

https://doi.org/10.1080/08109028.2016.1144669 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1080/08109028.2016.1144669 Copy URL This paper explores a model-centred approach to ...

While translational research can happen at any stage of the research process, a recent investigation of behavioral and social science research awards granted by the NIH between 2008 and 2014 revealed ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is oftentimes made between basic and applied research. Basic research is ivory tower research, with no practical ...

Justification Systems Theory is the idea that humans tend to justify their actions in accordance with social goals. Or more specifically, there is a tension between personal interests, social ...