How interventions are designed matter as much as what they do. In that vein, Harvard researchers Erin Frey and Todd Rogers have identified four pathways through which behavior change interventions can achieve long-term impact.

From general stores to department stores and superstores, retailing has undergone significant changes in the past two centuries. In their […]

Peer review is a powerful tool for sussing out the truth, but it’s not all-powerful. We also need to develop ways to reward scientists who do make their publications, data and methodology open for even greater scrutiny.

Economist Heidi Williams and urban sociologist Matthew Desmond were among 24 academics and artists winning prestigious MacArthur grants today.

A corporate anthropologist is told to write a report that will “name what’s taking place right now” and is “the First and Last Word on our age.” And so we set the stage for what in turn David Rudrum argues is itself a zeitgeist-defining work.

Peer Review Week begins today, a week to explore the role of peer review in addressing academic quality and rigor. Here, Sense About Science details why it feels it’s important to explain peer review to the wider world.

‘I think that happiness is better than a lot of what the ‘happiness industry’ represents it as,’ Goldsmiths sociologist Will Davies tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast.

[We’re pleased to welcome Christa Kiersch of University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Dr. Kiersch recently collaborated with Zinta S. Byrne of […]

[We’re pleased to welcome Devaki Rau of Northern Illinois University. Dr. Rau recently collaborated with Thorvald Haerem of BI Norwegian […]

With a third of the seats on the 24-member National Science Board opening next spring, the panel that oversees the […]

David Canter reviews new research studying the challenges of social science contributing to policy making.

Social scientists must team up to help achieve the global development agenda and help measure progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, attendees of the World Social Science Forum were told.