It’s a strange reality when more people recognize you from your videos on social media than from your peer-reviewed papers or “professional” work. During grad school, I could never have predicted that ...

Improved methods for social and behavioral sciences research could help enhance public trust in science, says a new study ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

University of Minnesota - Duluth announced that Anna Stevens, PhD will be their new Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Total R&D expenditures at American universities topped $117.5 billion in FY 2024. Of that ...

A new study published in Theory and Society suggests that published research in the social sciences has leaned consistently ...

T he publication process in social science is broken. Articles in prestigious journals use flawed data, employ questionable research practices, and reach illogical conclusions. Sometimes doubts over ...