Social Science Space

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.

David Canter considers how it is that people judge vaccination related risks so bizarrely.

The reports from Britain’s hospitals in the last few days have been truly worrying. No one should doubt the reality […]

Biplav Srivastava, professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina, and his team have developed a data-driven tool that helps demonstrate the effect of wearing masks on COVID-19 cases and deaths. His model utilizes a variety of data sources to create alternate scenarios that can tell us “What could have happened?” if a county in the U.S. had a higher or lower rate of mask adherence.

Six months into this pandemic, we have learned that it is not going to wipe out human life on this planet. This means, argues Robert Dingwall, that it is time for a public policy reset.

Safety is often seen as a challenge for engineers. While that remains a component, the ability to judge risk is perhaps many times more important in keeping people safe, and that suggests it’s time for a new social science of safety, argues Philip Thomas.

This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: […]

ICCA is hosting our first ever topical conference, focusing on evidence-based risk/needs assessments and the roles they play in a […]