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Humanities & Social Sciences@hss.springernature.com · 2d ago

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Institutional Intelligence: Evidence, Judgment and the Capacity to Act.' Institutional Intelligence examines how institutions identify what they need to know, bring evidence and competing knowledge into judgment, and learn from consequences. 🔗 bit.ly/3TSDuh3 🏛️

Institutional Intelligence: Evidence, Judgment and the Capacity to Act

Institutional Intelligence examines how institutions identify what they need to know, bring evidence and competing knowledge into judgment, authorise action and learn from consequences. Emerging from cultural policy research, it provides an analytical framework for institutional action and learning.

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Humanities & Social Sciences@hss.springernature.com · last wk.

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'From a Connecticut garden to a Canadian laboratory: a century in the Private Lives of Birds.' The findings reveal how individual preferences shape zebra finches' use of social information during nest building. 🔗 bit.ly/4ww2GZ6 #PsySci

From a Connecticut garden to a Canadian laboratory: a century in the Private Lives of Birds

Nearly 100 years after two naturalists wondered whether birds have favourite colours, we finally had the chance to test their idea. The results challenged our predictions and revealed that individual preferences shape how zebra finches use social information during nest building.

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Humanities & Social Sciences@hss.springernature.com · last wk.

Are the social sciences and humanities becoming “harder”? This bibliometric analysis of nine Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines explores the progress of "hardening" and what it means for the future of SSH research. 🔗 bit.ly/4fvCSoJ #EduSky #STS

Are the social sciences and humanities becoming “harder”? - Scientometrics

This study aims to answer the question: Does the “hardening” phenomenon in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) represent the parallel development of empirical research and interpretive research, or is it a linear extension of the scientific hierarchy? Taking 161,084 articles published from 2000 to 2024 in Social Sciences (Management, Education, Economics, Sociology, Psychology) and Humanities (History, Literature, Art, Philosophy) as the research objects, this study employs bibliometric methods to elucidate the hardening characteristics of SSH. Our findings reveal that SSH hardening is an irreversible trend, unfolding in three distinct phases: accumulation, acceleration, and sustained enhancement. Based on hardening values and growth rates, disciplines fall into four types: rapid-hardening (Psychology, Arts), first-hardening (Education), later-hardening (Sociology, Management), and hardening-stable (Literature, Economics, Philosophy, History). Overall, the social sciences exhibit stronger hardening than the humanities, a differentiation shaped by both knowledge hardness and organizational hardness. Meanwhile, “hardening” does not entail paradigm replacement but rather an extension of the methodological spectrum. The convergence of SSH toward greater logical rigor and precision does not imply abandoning their core values of speculation and critical thinking. Instead, it represents a necessary evolution to enhance their capacity to address complex real-world problems, engage in interdisciplinary dialogue, and contribute critical insights to contemporary challenges.

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Humanities & Social Sciences@hss.springernature.com · 2w ago

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