Stephen M. Walt writes on Foreign Policy about the role that academics should play in public discourse about major social […]

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Minority Member of the National Science Foundation Committee, has released a  staff report refuting a recent […]

“Hey good looking, come work for us!”: Aesthetic labor and discrimination law (Journal of Industrial Relations) When self-esteem is threatened people […]

A recent paper in the journal Social Science and Medicine found a strong association between having a physician manage a […]

Now available online slides from last week’s ALISS conference. http://www.alissnet.org.uk/Display.aspx?id=10737418262 So what is the Real Impact of Web 2.0 on […]

Tim Gramling’s study, “All Out War: Media Coverage of For-Profit Education,” recently published in SAGE Open, systematically charts the frequency […]

National geography-test scores released in the US last week – part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress – revealed […]

Duncan Watts writes in New Scientist that ‘common sense’ can help us make sense of human behaviour – but can […]

Report exposes poor quality of social science research Times of India Readings in the philosophy of social science Google Books […]

Tom Jacobs reports in Miller McCune Magazine on a recent study which finds anxiety, amusement, and even exercise, can compel people to […]

The American Anthropological Association  presents the science, history and lived experience of race in the United States in Smithsonian National […]

Seeing and experiencing violence makes aggression “normal” for children (Social Psychological and Personality Science) Are coalitions the inevitable future for UK governments? […]