A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
In February officials with the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Science Board […]
A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers
How much – or how little – do genes contribute to the decision to enter the military? A lot, according to the first effort to pin down an answer to that question. One of the researchers answers questions about the study.
Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.
The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70
Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.
Game theory neatly — and sadly — predicted the futility of using torture to extract meaning information from terror suspects, neatly predicting the results of the recent U.S. Senate report years before its release.
A transdisciplinary investigation into ‘The City’ sponsored offered hard truths and rays of hope for the urban future most of us will face.
