A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Research the author and colleagues conducted at Penn State shows that both the escalation and de-escalation of fear must occur for the message to be effective.
During the dramatic halt to in-person events in 2020, the use of video call software skyrocketed, transforming Zoom into a […]
There are a lot of factors that play into deciding on who to hire as a head coach in the NFL. Looking at the data, race is one of them.
Looking at the entirety of what occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s clear that there was both legitimate protest and illegitimate political violence. When political violence replaces political discourse, and when political leaders refuse to play by the democratic rules of the game, democracies weaken, and may even die.
The idea of walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is often trotted out as a metaphor for understanding empathy. […]
The work of Christopher Boafo, Richard Afriyie Owusu and Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain offers an understanding of the internationalization of informal smaller firms in two major enterprise clusters in a sub-Saharan African economy through a network perspective.
Across studies in research described here, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field.
Defying the Third Reich’s attempt to wipe Jewish culture off the map, ‘yizker bikher’ memorialize writers’ hometowns, commemorate murdered loved ones and pass on collective memory.
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.
