Tag: Culture

We Aren’t the World

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: March 13, 2013

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

Islamic Cultures, Religious Affiliation, and Sex Outside of Marriage.

By Amy Adamczyk and Brittany Hayes | Published: January 9, 2013

In our study we were interested in examining differences between religious groups and the dominant religious faith within nations in the likelihood that residents would engage in premarital or extramarital sex.

Paul Seabright on the Relationship Between the Sexes

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 31, 2012

There is still a great deal of inequality between the sexes in the workplace. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast Paul Seabright combines insights from economics and evolutionary theory to shed light on why this might be so.

After Aurora, Expect PTSD to Spread Far Beyond Theater

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: July 25, 2012

Two studies of Virginia Tech students provide information on the likelihood and treatment of stress-related psychological symptoms following a mass shooting.

The impact of cuts on creativity

By ssseditor | Published: May 12, 2011

Can creativity flourish at a time when government funding for arts and humanities is being cut? That was the question under discussion at ‘Cuts in culture: the impact on creativity’, an event in London on 11 May. The focus was principally on funding for arts organisations, but the discussion also considered how different academic disciplines [...]

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