Social Sciences

Less than half of parents are confident that their children’s school is well prepared if their students become victims of “nudification AI” apps, a survey has found. The survey found that just 47% were confident […]

From refusing to doff hats in court to resisting hat-snatching highway robbers, England’s relationship with hats goes far deeper than fashion, new research shows.This post was originally published on this site

As the global aging population advances and countries face shrinking workforces, a new study focusing on China by IIASA researchers and colleagues from Nanjing University reveals how economic growth can persist despite these changes in […]

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled “Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects […]

Friends can help us with all kinds of things in life. How could I forget moving that piano for friends in Chicago? Fortunately, none of us ended up in the ER.This post was originally published […]

A new study, published in the British Journal of Management, examines the high-profile cases of Theranos, Purdue Pharma, Enron, and Wirecard, and claims that the desire to pin the blame on individuals has allowed the […]

As geopolitical tensions rise globally, a new study published in Critical Studies on Security warns that the shadow of the “mushroom cloud” is weighing heavily on the next generation. The research paper, titled “Mushrooms, cranes, […]

The Global Flourishing Study (GFS), the most comprehensive empirical investigation of human flourishing ever undertaken, has made its first two waves of data publicly available through the Center for Open Science at no cost and […]

Online comments can shape how social media content about politics is perceived, even when people’s opinions are hard to change, a new study shows. The new research suggests that while attitudes may be stable, the […]