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I began researching Afghan women not from statistics, but from a simple and haunting question: what would happen to me if I had been born there? This might sound naive, even self-centered. But I…

There is a moment that any researcher using public AI for their work should pause and examine — not the moment they paste sensitive data into a chat interface, but the moment just before…

In 1908, Robert Yerkes and John Dodson published the results of an experiment that, by contemporary ethical standards, would not clear an institutional review board. They placed mice in a maze and used graduated…

Every generation of social scientists inherits a set of methodological anxieties from the generation before it, and then discovers a new set of its own. The generation trained in the 1990s inherited debates about…

Redefining the Scale of Stagnation: An In-Depth Analysis of the “Small Wins” Theory in Organizational Psychology and Academic Performance Stagnation in intellectual work rarely stems from a lack of competence; largely, it originates from…

THE ROLE OF NON-MATERIAL FACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE LOWER MEKONG REGION: CASE STUDY OF VIETNAM AND THAILAND Abstract: For a long time, thinking about International Relations was dominated by tangible material parameters…

Abstract: Against the backdrop of a world undergoing transformative changes, challenges from international integration and the rise of non-traditional security threats have allowed cognitive warfare to emerge as a dominant mode of engagement, capable…