Social Science Space

The incoming president of the Linguistic Society of America reflects on his own primary education and how public education across the nation tends to perpetuate the class structure.

In this podcast, Northwestern University’s Joel , Mokyr tells interviewer Dave Edmonds, “I use economics to understand history, and I use history to understand economics.”

January 6 provided both a natural experiment for current research and a chance to see if past predictions might play out as expected. This collection of academic commentary on the attack should add ore light than heat to the discussion.

James Piazza concludes that when election losers in democracies reject election results, becoming “sore losers,” tribalism grows and political violence becomes less taboo.

The interests of the readers of Social Science Space in 2021 hewed closely to the interests of larger society last […]

Do potential entrepreneurs see COVID-driven upheaval as an opportunity or as a barrier to fulfill entrepreneurial dreams, and to what extent does this vary among potential entrepreneurs depending on their level of self-efficacy?

At a time when there are so many concerns being raised about always-on work cultures and our right to disconnect, email is the bane of many of our working lives.

In this Social Science Bites podcast, social anthropologist Karin Barber offers a specific case study of the application of the verbal arts by examining in depth some of the genres common in the Yoruba-speaking areas of Western Africa.

Everyone – from ordinary citizens to journalists reporting on big issues and researchers trying to communicate their findings – should accept that science changes, and behave accordingly

Distrust of atheists is strong in the United States. The General Social Survey consistently demonstrates that as a group, Americans […]

In recent years, many behavioral scientists have begun to question whether loss aversion is quite so ironclad a principle of the human mind

The gender gap in citations between male and female researchers is well documented. Lin Zhang and Gunnar Sivertsen find that while papers authored by female researchers are less cited, they are more frequently engaged with by readers.