As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material […] The post Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit appeared first on Social Science Space.
Let’s say you were asked to name the greatest health risks facing the planet. Priceton University economist Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director […] The post Ramanan Laxminarayan on Antibiotic Use appeared first on Social Science Space.
Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod, it can be a cardinal […] The post Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain appeared first on Social Science Space.
When economic news, especially that revolving around working, gets reported, it tends to get reported in aggregate – the total number of […] The post David Autor on the Labor Market appeared first on Social Science Space.
Are university students unhappy? We won’t generalize, but many are, and this was something Bruce Hood noted. Being an experimental psychologist who […] The post Bruce Hood on the Science of Happiness appeared first on Social Science Space.
Let’s cut to the chase: “The overwhelming majority of murders in the United States involve guns,” says economist Jens Ludwig. “And in […] The post Jens Ludwig on American Gun Violence appeared first on Social Science Space.
A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of […] The post Crystal Abidin on Influencers appeared first on Social Science Space.
Everyone, we assume, wants to be their best person. Few of us, perhaps, none, hits all their marks in this pursuit even […] The post Katy Milkman on How to Change appeared first on Social Science Space.
There is a natural desire on the part of governments to ensure that their future citizens — i.e. their nation’s children — […] The post Janet Currie on Improving Our Children’s Futures appeared first on Social Science Space.
As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she […] The post Julia Ebner on Violent Extremism appeared first on Social Science Space.
The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that – relationships. And those relations generally start with […] The post Nick Camp on Trust in the Criminal Justice System appeared first on Social Science Space.
Economist Daron Acemoglu, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the history of technological revolutions in the last millennium and what they may tell us about artificial intelligence today. The post Daron Acemoglu on Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Social Science Space.
How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of research The post Iris Berent on the Innate in Human Nature appeared first on Social Science Space.
Megan Stevenson's work finds little success in applying reforms derived from certain types of social science research on criminal justice. The post Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work appeared first on Social Science Space.
Opinions on immigration are not set in stone, suggests Rob Ford – but they may be set in generations. Zeroing in on the experience of the United Kingdom since the end of World War II, Ford – a political scientist at the University of Manchester – explains how this generation’s ‘other’ becomes the next generation’s ‘neighbor.' The post Rob Ford on Immigration appeared first on Social Science Space.
Economist Tavneet Suri discusses fieldwork she's done in handing our cash directly to Kenyans in poor and rural parts of Kenya, and what the generally good news from that work may herald more broadly. The post Tavneet Suri on Universal Basic Income appeared first on Social Science Space.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School and author of the just-released "May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It," reviews the persistence of confirmation bias even among professors of finance. The post Alex Edmans on Confirmation Bias appeared first on Social Science Space.
Caring makes us human. This is one of the strongest ideas one could infer from the work that developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik is discovering in her work on child development, cognitive economics and caregiving. The post Alison Gopnik on Care appeared first on Social Science Space.
Tejendra Pherali, a professor of education, conflict and peace at University College London, researches the intersection of education and conflict around the world. The post Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict appeared first on Social Science Space.
In an age where things like facial recognition or financial software algorithms are shown to uncannily reproduce the prejudices of their creators, this was much less obvious earlier in the century, when researchers like Safiya Umoja Noble were dissecting search engine results and revealing the sometimes appalling material they were highlighting. The post Safiya Noble on Search Engines appeared first on Social Science Space.