Interdisciplinary take will differentiate lasting innovation from tech novelty, writes the director of the Knowledge Lab and ...

A new study shows how extreme weather and power outages can impact socially vulnerable populations in counties near the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The study could not be reproduced. The world of social science got a rude awakening a few years ago, when researchers concluded that many studies in this area appeared to be deeply flawed.

It was. Of 21 social and behavioral science papers in Science and Nature that met the study criteria between 2010 and 2015, the replicators found that just 13 had a statistically significant ...

The use of social media is contributing to declining attention spans, emotional volatility, and compulsive behaviors among ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to nationwide unrest following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, the Obama administration established the President’s Task Force on ...