Research and Impact

Stephanie Moulton, along with her colleagues, introduces a self-affirmation intervention to test whether writing down personal values can enhance energy-saving attitudes and behaviors, finding it boosts positive cognitive outcomes especially among lower-income individuals, though it does not increase actual energy-saving actions.

Jos Raadschelders explores the tensions between agendas of elected officials and career civil servants.

Vladimir Kogan examines spring 2024 Ohio State Tests to understand how student academic achievement has been recovering since the declines experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation. Caroline S. Wagner suggests that at least in the case of China, science depends more on state capacities, a situation which may in turn have an impact on the current composition of global science.

Can national research capacity be measured?

This study examines emerging patterns of current methamphetamine use, including opioid co-use, among this understudied population. 

Russell Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how workplace inclusion can reduce emotional exhaustion and buffer against challenges like incivility and COVID-19–related job changes in local government organizations.