Shiffman has argued that some actors have a great deal of power in global health, and that more reflection is needed on whether such forms of power are legitimate. Global health is a new and evolving field that builds upon the historical fields of public and international health, but is more multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary in nature. This article argues that the distribution of power ...

Debate over the appropriateness of discussing racism in U.S. educational settings is ongoing. Whereas some believe will improve race relations, others argue that such discussions are divisive and cause unnecessary distress, especially among White students. In a preregistered study, we investigated whether people who do not identify as Black or African American indeed experience emotional distre...

People have the tendencies to be involved or engaged in transgression. While some may forgiving and move forward, others hold grudges, resentment, feel remorse. In context of social, behavioral science, this is worth investigating. Thus, study aimed at analyzing indicatives forgivingness a transgression-related act if these are associated with Gender age. The main instrument used Transgression ...

Introduction The production of knowledge is dominantly organized in disciplines. At the same time, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research is developing at the boundaries of the scientific disciplines. In this paper we compare disciplinary and non-disciplinary forms of knowledge production in terms of communication patterns. We will suggest an indicator for measuring the degree of inte...

he ambitious and integrated framework of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates that complex global problems span the natural and social sciences and that solutions to such problems demand a joint approach of the two. Despite decades of efforts toward better integration, much of society still presumes a stark divide between the disciplines, and most scientists...

Academic disciplines see research questions through the biases created by their presuppositions and preferred methods. Political science and communication are no different. In the past, political scientists more often focused on outcomes and the social and economic judgments that seemed to shape them while communication researchers have focused more intensely on the structure and content of the...

Is there a cross-disciplinary design theory and methodology? This special issue includes three contributions from disciplines that are not typical engineering fields where design theories and methodologies have intensively applied and well received. The first paper, titled “Agile Forward-Reverse Requirements Elicitation as a Creative Design Process: a Case Study of Illimitable Space System v2” ...