Vote for your favorite social science haiku!

Here are all the social science entries from the academic haiku contestPlease vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.

1.
dixie chicks blacklist
krugman blames clear channel (jerks)
nope, it was rednecks

“Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy”

2.
how can you spot bribes?
diffusion curve goes convex
radio’s corrupt

“Modeling Diffusion of Many Innovations via Multilevel Diffusion Curves: Payola in Pop Music Radio”

3.
to get an oscar
stick with scorcese, leo
it’s the team, not you

“I’d Like to Thank the Academy, Complementary Productivity and Social Networks”

4.
What say you of AIDS,
Rural religious leaders?
“As my neighbors do.”

“Rural Malawian Congregational Leaders’ HIV-Related Discourse Networks”

5.
How God protects me?
Fewer Sex Partners – No dice.
Still not safe from AIDS.

“Damned if you Do, Damned if you Don’t: Religious Affiliation and HIV Risk Network Structure”

6.
Stop with “Me and God”.
“My risk” / AIDS dogma. Let’s think
more relational.

“Religion Networks and HIV in Rural Malawi”

7.
Why video stores?
‘Twas mediators who made
films not just for screens.

“From Betamax to Blockbuster”

8.
Women opting out?
Professionals, managers -
more work and work more.

“Opting Out? Cohort Differences in Professional Women’s Employment Rates from 1960 to 2000.”

9.
Married, unmarried
which new dads work more? All else
equal, no difference.

“Transitions to fatherhood among men in marital, cohabiting, and non-residential relationships: Variations in employment trajectories.”

10.
Wield your mind better:
offload thinking, and improve
metacognition.

“Exceeding Cognitive Limitations: Metacognition and Offloading onto the Environment.”

11.
People use concepts
when learning and explaining.
How do we do that?

Title TBA.

12.
whispers in your head:
slips of the tongue may precede
articulation.

“Inner speech slips exhibit lexical bias, but not the phonemic similarity effect.”

13.
Simulate Humans
Model Both Mind and Body
Cog. Sci. Not A.I.

General description of my digital human modeling research.

14.
Attention’s limits:
How much can you remember?
I’ll look at your brain.

Title TBA.

15.
Discrimination
Keeps black students to themselves.
Campus cops guilty.

“Social Energy and Segregation in the University Context.”

16.
Black kid at black school:
Odds are thrice he will apply
to black colleges.

“High School Classrooms and Black Students’ College Applications”

17.
Poverty: harder?
Easier? But where and why?
Are cities the key?

Title TBA.

18.
Close relationships.
Transference can cause hang-ups.
The unconscious rules.

“The transference of attachment patterns: How parental and romantic relationships influence feelings toward novel people. Personal Relationships.”

19.
O Religious Right,
Why do you shout at the gays?
Activists adjust.

“Fighting the Right: How the Religious Right Changed Lesbian and Gay Activism”

20.
We often forget
It’s what we do that brings spring
among gold and sticks

Title TBA, on citizenship in new democracies

21.
new global order -
suddenly, obligations.
how did this happen?!

Dissertation on global justice

22.
Obon dances bring
Yamaguchi emigrants
back from Hawai’i

“International Labor Migrants Return to Meiji-Era Yamaguchi and Hiroshima: Economic and Social Effects”

23.
Want consent to give
just laws legitimacy
Kant say pigs can’t fly

“Global Natural Duties of Justice”

24.
Where literacy
and democracy abound,
there conquest will fail.

Dissertation: Pyrrhic Peace: Governance Costs and the Utility of War

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