Research suggests that whether people view the world as competitive or cooperative impacts how they perceive antagonistic ...

Social science studies can be highly sensitive to small changes in their model and sample. See Steven N. Durlaf, et al., Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on ...

The limitations of social science are crucial to understand, but such limits are often underexpressed in coverage. So when faced with a seemingly explosive research finding, especially about a moral ...

Other replication projects have found rates of between 30 and 77 percent in the social sciences. Although these studies have been very different, the results are starting to fall within a certain ...

, Social science students at Case Western Reserve engage with significant academic resources and research opportunities, leading to fulfilling careers and top graduate school placements. Studying the ...

The past few years have raised some hard questions about the science of well-being. How culturally biased is our conception of happiness? How much do social forces (or genetics) shape happiness, ...

A team co-led by Gideon Nave of Penn's Wharton School replicated 21 high-profile social science studies and found discrepancies with the original research, including eight studies that failed to ...

As with proposals for medical research, I.R.B.'s rarely reject social-science studies outright. Instead, researchers are increasingly voicing complaints that review boards are proposing cumbersome ...

And now, college philosophy departments — along with the other humanities and the social sciences — are shrinking, with reduced fields of study, smaller teaching staffs and fewer courses.

For social scientists, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been a gold mine, allowing rapid data collection for thousands of social science studies. This past summer, this gold mine seemed to ...

Dreber also cautions that the SSRP only looked at 21 studies, and can’t say much about whether prediction markets can more broadly gauge the reliability of social-science studies.

The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies (SSCS) provides students with critical skills that expand how they perceive their intellectual, artistic, and professional work. Courses in SSCS ...