Behavioral and social sciences at the National Institutes of Health: Methods, measures, and data infrastructures as a scientific priority.
Abstract
The National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) recently released its strategic plan for 2017-2021. This plan focuses on three equally important strategic priorities: 1) improve the synergy of basic and applied behavioral and social sciences research, 2) enhance and promote the research infrastructure, methods, and measures needed to support a more cumulative and integrated approach to behavioral and social sciences research, and 3) facilitate the adoption of behavioral and social sciences research findings in health research and in practice. This commentary focuses on scientific priority two and future directions in measurement science, technology, data infrastructure, behavioral ontologies, and big data methods and analytics that have the potential to transform the behavioral and social sciences into more cumulative, data rich sciences that more efficiently build on prior research. (PsycINFO Database Record
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The association between self-monitoring and weight change is granular, meaning meaningful over shorter time scales like one month, when examined over an entire long-term BWL.
“These novel findings illustrate that the association between self-monitoring and weight change is granular (i.e., meaningful over shorter time scales like one month) when examined over an entire long-term BWL (Riley, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Riley, W. T.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Riley, William T.
- ORCID
- Riley, William T.
- Venue
- Health Psychology
- Published
- 2017-01
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-7
- ISSN
- 0278-6133 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-7810
- OpenAlex
- W2562533239
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 5.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Big Data Technologies and Applications
- Keywords
- research infrastructure, metrology, data infrastructure, cumulative science
- MeSH terms
- Humans, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Research, Social Sciences, United States, Behavioral Research
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