SAD effects on grantsmanship.
SAD is a state of depression induced by a lack of sufficient sunlight that occurs at high latitudes during the fall and winter. SAD causes people to be risk-adverse. Granting agencies of high latitude countries should time high-risk research competitions so they do not coincide with the SAD months.
Estonian Centre of Evolutionary Ecology, Tartu, Estonia.
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D000531:Altitude; D003657:Decision Making; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016574:Seasonal Affective Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*
SAD; granting agency; grantmanship; research evaluation; research funding; seasonal affective disorder