| 单词 | social scientist |
| 例句 | Like many scientists and social scientists of his era, Muller had been captivated by eugenics since the 1920s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The social scientists, especially the economists, are moving deeply into ecology and the environment these days, with disquieting results. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The social scientists have shown this is wrong. Our own people have proven themselves in every field—not just a few, but thousands. How can the racists deny these proofs?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were controlled by “big men,” the social scientist’s term for the alpha male who is able in such informal settings to enforce his will through persuasion or force. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fancy mathematical terms and reams of statistical correlations and computer printouts do not in themselves produce understanding, social scientists’ claims notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My sense is that a large majority of social scientists still favors proximate explanations for the different courses of European and Chinese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When I interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture emerge. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Sherry Turkle, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology social scientist, described the phenomenon most succinctly in the title of her 2011 book, “Alone Together.” Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Coming Game System, Wii U 2012-06-06T19:06:25Z Even some humanists who admire Mr. Chwe’s work suggest that when it comes to appreciating Austen, social scientists may be the clueless ones. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z A few decades ago, social scientists started measuring happiness and productivity, and what they found, Mr. Duhigg said, is that happier workers are more productive. As Economy Is Upended, Marie Kondo Drops a Workplace Book 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z I also understand why many social scientists now contend that the difficulties were worth it and that most children benefited, black, white or otherwise. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z There are neurologists who fear that constantly being online is messing with our brain wiring, social scientists who fear that our "connected" world leads to a greater sense of isolation. Hollywood explores the virtues and evils of social media 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Almost two years after Donald Trump's once-unthinkable election victory, social scientists and other researchers have reached some clear conclusions about how and why it happened. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z They spent time with clinicians, embryologists, social scientists and women who have recently frozen their eggs to understand the reasons, process and the impact of egg freezing. We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Many psychologists, social scientists and therapists I spoke with expressed hesitance and caution about clinical solutions, favoring a psychotherapy approach to treating chronic loneliness. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z At the same time, she notes that the news may not be all bad — or, rather, that the way social scientists study parenting may be ill-equipped to deliver good news. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z Most social scientists favor one of two research strategies. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Howe wasn’t pretending to be a disinterested social scientist, but they weren’t a social worker either. A new way to view homelessness: Not as a problem but as a culture 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z In the Australian Review, Barlow was something of a social scientist, approaching his reviews with a blank slate and treating them with methodical precision. Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s a curious fact, however, that Murray — who lambastes the unwillingness of politically correct social scientists to look dispassionately at the data — publishes his books under such carefully controlled circumstances. Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z As a social scientist, I found this interesting. When my husband died, mushroom foraging helped me out of the dark 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z “But the huge majority of social scientists would say it’s the economic downturn suffered by the less educated in the last generation.” Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America? 2012-02-05T22:33:26Z “There’s still a lingering notion of Hurston as not quite serious, maybe gifted and intuitive, but not a sound scholar, not a respectable social scientist. But she really was ahead of her time.” A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Interviewing these men, Miller wears his social scientist’s hat, but he admits to chafing under its constraints. Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z This approach – only the social scientists persistently call it anthropomorphism; dog lovers tend to regard it as entirely acceptable behaviour – is widely frowned upon by most animal behaviourists as inhumane. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z All sorts of social scientists are now working that intersection where wealth and romance meet — and they’re uncovering an assortment of troubling trends. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z I trace it back to the 1950s, when certain social scientists started lamenting over the decline of the family. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z The door is thus left wide open for the psychologists and social scientists to walk in and take a look around. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Skinner, the Harvard social scientist who championed radical behaviorism. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z But I’m not a historian or a politician or a social scientist, and I have nothing insightful to say about this. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z While most social scientists pick apart problems in previous research, “Jim always starts with problems in the real world,” Mr. Shapiro said. James C. Scott, Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z John Gabree, in a review in Newsday, said that Mr. Davis “writes in the sometimes impenetrable style of a social scientist.” Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The data fascinated social scientists, but Williams believed it was more than interesting: it could have a practical application in helping counter these narratives. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Nicola Nice, a social scientist and spirits entrepreneur, says that presents only half of the story of the cocktail’s rise to social prominence. The Women Left Out of the History of Cocktails 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Duncan Watts, a social scientist at Microsoft Research and the author of “Everything Is Obvious,” welcomes the trend. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Born in Hamilton, Ontario, and based in Paris, Ms. Kiwanga is a trained anthropologist and social scientist who works in video, sound and performance. Commissioned Artist Named for Armory Show 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Many social scientists consider gender to be on a spectrum, with some people identifying as a mixture of both, or neither. How the bathroom became a political battleground for civil rights 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Co-founder and CEO Sean Rad touted its more realistic appeal to physical attraction over the algorithms that other dating sites say yield compatible matches, algorithms viewed skeptically by social scientists. Men Swipe Right on Tinder 3 Times as Much as Women 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “From a young age, looking at the world through the eyes of a social scientist has always interested me,” he says, “understanding people and trying to be empathetic to them.” Little Men director Ira Sachs: 'I have a Marxist perspective' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Starting in 1959, a team of social scientists began work on the “People Machine,” trying to learn how to predict human behavior and decisions. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Much as I respect the efforts of economists and social scientists to explain the world and the intermittent efforts of politicians to change it, I trust artists and writers more. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Curiously, one seems to be at hand, and it’s even got backing from the social scientists: It’s called the law of diminishing returns. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z From there Konner proceeds to survey research by cognitive and social psychologists, social scientists and philosophers seeking to understand how religion is formed not just in the brain, but in the mind. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Economists and social scientists will surely continue to try to work that one out. Motherlode Blog: New Research: Having Children Makes You (Relatively) Happier. The Parents Are Alright. 2012-05-17T14:28:52Z But for social scientists like us, Steven Spielberg's remake of the 1961 hit musical "West Side Story" — a film about two rival street gangs — is more than a 21st-century face-lift of a Broadway classic. "West Side Story" may be timeless — but life in gangs today differs vastly from the Jets and Sharks 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Charles Booth was a British social scientist and reformer who, from 1886 to 1903, undertook a massive investigation called “Life and Labour of the People in London.” Map Quests 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Despite decades of research, social scientists have done no better than the vague idea that media violence is a “risk factor for increased aggression,” which may or may not correlate to actual behavior. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist, thinks the answer is for educated families to preach the family values they practise. The new merry-go-round 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Of course, social scientists have long influenced crime policies. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z My response: numerous very rigorous studies by the country's leading social scientists have repeatedly shown that it was racism and nativism and authoritarianism which motivated Donald Trump's voters. Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z His father, a social scientist based in Stillwater, works mainly in the Philippines as a consultant on geographic information systems. Angela Martin, Brent Tongco 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z So, what is sad for me is that you are attacking a social scientist. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on the #MeToo Moment and ‘The Post’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z As social scientists researching the environmental footprint of digital technologies, we're interested in the potential benefits and drawbacks of this new emerging connection. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Happiness is a tricky word for me and this is why social scientists and psychologists really use the term "well-being," which I think is more all-encompassing. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The year's squirmiest movie proves you don't need a social scientist's lab to test the limits of the harm people will inflict on others. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z The father is eventually killed by the police after a routine traffic stop, and the narrator grows up to be an urban farmer and mad social scientist. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z As a social scientist, though, he struggled at times to get the paint off his brush. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z In an interview with Lepore, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker and a onetime friend of Pool’s, called him “the most corrupt social scientist I had ever met, without question.” The Bumbling 1960s Data Scientists Who Anticipated Facebook and Google 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z When social scientists and other experts discuss "white supremacy" they use that term in ways that are usually quite different from the general public. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Or from “The Moral Sense,” by James Q. Wilson, the pre-eminent social scientist of the last half of the previous century. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The social and political life of the United States has been oriented around what historians, social scientists and other scholars have described as “the black-white binary.” Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In California, the legal team challenging Proposition 8 has called upon psychologists, historians and social scientists to testify on their behalf, a tactic that worked well for supporters of same-sex marriage in Iowa. 2010-01-21T08:07:00Z The image of a bunch of social scientists inflicting pain on laboratory volunteers seems creepily Mengelian, but in this case the experiments involved were markedly less cruel. Studied: Rejection May Hurt More Than Feelings 2011-05-13T19:21:51Z And that explains why social scientists and communication scholars have found so much banter in our everyday online conversations. What effect has the internet had on comedy? 2011-04-02T23:07:08Z Other academicians are writers, social scientists, a few politicians and one cardinal. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z She started the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts, a collaboration among artists, researchers and social scientists to explore and measure how art promotes emotional intelligence. Change is coming to the National Gallery of Art. But is it ready for Kaywin Feldman? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Jan Hoffman, reporting for The Times, found that psychologists, social scientists and adolescent medicine specialists are watching Facebook postings by teenagers for indications of depression — and to help learn how, when and if to intervene. Motherlode Blog: When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help 2012-02-24T04:20:27Z "But a lot of critical social scientists or literary scholars aren't upset, because we already saw white supremacy and white paternalism in the form of Atticus Finch. It was just the palatable kind." Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Mummolo spoke as a true social scientist, she said, with “no sign of partisanship. No grimace.” A Romantic Turnaround for Two Political Scientists 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It's a textbook case of what social scientists have long called "Missing White Woman Syndrome," or selective attention paid to missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. How “Only Murders” foreshadowed the Gabby Petito media circus and citizen sleuthing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z So to leap from these studies to conclusions about same-sex parenting, explains University of Virginia social scientist Charlotte Patterson, is “what we call in the trade bad sampling techniques.” HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z The doughnut shop in the Tracy Letts play "Superior Donuts" is what social scientists call a "third place." Coffee and the American dream, served up in snappy, moving 'Superior Donuts' 2012-10-04T20:05:11Z As record visitor numbers bring operational challenges to Yellowstone National Park, a social scientist studies the effects on people. Are crowds too much for Yellowstone — and you? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Celebrity crushes are a form of what social scientists, since the rise of television, have called “parasocial interaction”: one-sided intimacy, at a distance, with someone famous. We never escape teenage crushes: The Beatles, One Direction and what our early obsessions teach us about love 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, Johannes Eichstaedt, a computational social scientist at Stanford, and a founder of the World Well Being Project, concedes that the methods like the ones his own lab uses are far from perfect. Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Writing of the “social mechanisms that condemn some people to poverty,” he stiffly lists “factors identified by modern social scientists” in an odd-sounding attempt to prove the novel’s prescience. ‘Les Misérables’ is not just a great story — it’s a great publishing story 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z And to many social scientists, it was far from clear whether the information gathered by the teams was intended to build Afghan civil society, protect civilians or kill insurgents. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z By a historian and social scientist at the University of Sydney. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Seven percent are really hardcore, but then what happens is that a lot of people are not outright dismissive — they just are what social scientists call “cognitive misers.” An evangelical scientist on reconciling her religion and the realities of climate change 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Women get penalized when that happens — social scientists call it the flexibility stigma — and their careers often never recover in terms of pay or promotions. Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Many social scientists believe that the partisan polarization that now afflicts us was all but inevitable, a byproduct of geographic and ideological sorting that led to more consistently ideological parties. When American Politics Turned Toxic 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Guests on the show include entrepreneurs, social scientists, and more. The 10 Most Popular Podcasts of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Executives are working with social scientists to develop metrics to gauge success. Movies with a message make impact beyond Oscars glitz 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Although it’s true that some people peddle ideas about generations based on questionable data, advances in research methods now allow social scientists to pinpoint generational and cultural changes with a surprising degree of accuracy. How do we know the millennial generation exists? Look at the data 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s like cleaning your closet, said Kelly Winters, a product manager on Facebook’s designated “Compassion Team,” a changing squad of product managers and designers, engineers, researchers, social scientists and psychologists. The Facebook Breakup 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z To social scientists, what’s most interesting about the phenomenon of paying it forward is that there does not appear to be any good reason to pay anything forward. Tom Perkins explained: Greed is cyclical 2014-02-25T13:30:00Z Bull’s work confirms what social scientists have long supposed: Facebook campaigns rarely have a huge impact on teenagers, but they can have a small impact on a huge number of teenagers. Can Facebook promote safe sex? 2012-11-24T16:00:00Z We are a group of social scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand who have been exploring approaches for public engagement. Malnutrition in South Africa: How one community wants resources to be spent 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z For almost a decade, he has personally worked with academics, social scientists, psychologists, lawyers, law enforcement agencies and others on how to best approach, research and understand the vampire subculture. Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The names Kahneman and Tversky are now well known among social scientists, but even experts in the field will not know the story of how their collaboration began. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And let’s be clear that no reputable 21st-century social scientist would try to claim that violence seen on screen leads directly to acts of violence in the real world. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z Neuroscientists and social scientists are only beginning to understand how the 24/7 news cycle does odd things to our parenting brains. Perspective | It’s time to land that helicopter. Hovering isn’t helping your kids. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z At the time, social scientists actively preached against physical contact with newborns; new mothers were taught not to kiss their babies, or pick them up when they cried. A Bereaved Daughter Delves Into Her Mother’s Secrets 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z At the same time, social scientists run a special kind of risk, because their work does seem, superficially, to share certain goals with the ideological generalizers. Are kids from religious backgrounds really more selfish than their nonreligious peers? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Rosenhan isn’t the only social scientist whose work at the time has come under ethical scrutiny. Her Illness Was Misdiagnosed as Madness. Now Susannah Cahalan Takes On Madness in Medicine. 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The first thing is something that social scientists call “hedonic adaptation.” Buy less, do more: 5 reasons why experiences make us happier than things 2014-03-08T21:00:00Z There are more than 400,000 foster children in the U.S., and the statistics on their long-term success are grim, says Pennsylvania State University social scientist Royel Johnson, who studies educational opportunities for vulnerable youth. A farm and restaurant program that helps foster kids succeed 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Rogers’ “Oslo” as the Norwegian social scientist who improbably facilitated back-channel talks that led to the 1993 Oslo Accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization is particularly stirring in these undiplomatic times. And the winner is ... a tie? Why this year's Tony Awards are so impossible to predict 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z With Iraq descending into civil war, and the Taliban resurgent in Afghanistan, the military began recruiting civilian social scientists to help commanders understand the tribal forces they were trying to pacify. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z I just don’t know in detail how drugs influence crowds and vice versa, but do think social scientists can provide clues. Punk, dance music and drugs 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z “Anything by Balint Magyar. He is a Hungarian social scientist and he has this tome, it’s this huge book called ‘The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes.’ What Is Driving Vladimir Putin? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z If he emerged in 1989 as a kind of prophet, today he’s a boots-on-the-ground social scientist, concerned with what it takes to keep systems and structures working. Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In 2008, three social scientists posed the same question to men and women: "What counts as sex?" "Cheating’s OK for me, but not for thee" — inside the messy psychology of sexual double standards 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z There is a longstanding debate among social scientists about what ultimately drives human behavior. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z While social scientists have explored racism on online dating apps, most of this work has centered on highlighting the problem, a topic I've also written about. How gay men justify their racism on Grindr 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Martin conducted more than 30 interviews with eminent social scientists, psychologists and primatologists. Wednesday Martin Dares to Call Her New Book ‘Untrue’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The fact of the matter is that the very best research done today by social scientists straddles the culturalist-materialist divide. Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z According to social scientists, dehumanization creates the permission structure to go against our natural inclination to connect with other humans and instead demonize them as enemies different from ourselves. Understanding Gaza: Don’t fall into the trap of dehumanization 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z Adam Barry, a health behavior social scientist at Texas A&M, said after the Southeastern Conference allowed schools to sell alcohol in 2019, booze started to flow in stadiums from coast to coast. AP survey finds 55 of 69 schools in major college football now sell alcohol at stadiums on game day 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z But we also want social scientists and experts in communication, so we can really think about other aspects that scientists don’t normally consider when they’re naming species. ‘Why are we naming birds after people?’ Behind the plan to scrap many bird names 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Forest Service social scientist who studies the health benefits of trees. The surprising way that millions of new trees could transform America 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z There are a number of possible reasons for this trend, says Yian Yin, a computational social scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Nobel Prizes Are Taking Longer to Award Groundbreaking Research 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z “It is a very clear story of increasing hazard,” says social scientist Chandni Singh, a climate researcher with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Ferociously hot weather could make some cities unlivable. Low-tech solutions can help 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z As social scientists and other experts have repeatedly demonstrated, social inequality is a type of structural and institutional violence. The real reason why Donald Trump wants Gen. Milley to be killed 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z It begins with a great conversation with Robert D. Bullard, the father of environmental justice and one of the most influential social scientists of our time. Introducing Scientific American' s Redesign, Newsletter and Podcasts 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Some social scientists foresaw the political moment we are in and wrote about it for decades. Recovering from "Gonzo Governance" 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z “Luxury practices are disproportionately contributing to the climate crisis at this point,” said University of Maryland social scientist Dana Fisher. Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z We are a multi-university team of social scientists who have been regularly polling Americans in all 50 states since April 2020. Who still likes Donald Trump? Lots of Republicans — but we looked for specifics 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z I am a social scientist who studies the nature of male-dominated subcultures—including Dungeons & Dragons, video games and the military—which means I discuss masculinity a lot, from both a contemporary and a historical context. What Grand Theft Auto Tells Us about the ‘Crisis in Masculinity’ 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Baker-Snoqualmie national forests, designed to pool ideas and resources from conservation groups, social scientists, wilderness stewardship researchers and others outside the Forest Service. How the Enchantments became the most in-demand hike in the U.S. 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z University of Oklahoma social scientist Justin Sharpe, who studies disaster warnings, said with poor and disabled residents the key is to avoid warnings that simply say “get out now” and nothing else. Homes that become deadly: Tornadoes kill disproportionately more in mobile homes, AP analysis finds 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z A new book co-authored by a group of social scientists and data scientists, "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy," argues that there is. Untangling the deep and troubled roots of democracy can help define its future 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z These alarming trends are consistent with predictions that climate change experts and social scientists have made for years that the Arizona metropolis would become uninhabitably hot due to climate change. Hellhounds of summer: The hottest heatwave in human history just keeps getting worse 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z With no higher authority or organization propelling the content, social scientists call this a bottom-up social diffusion process. Why people tend to believe UFOs are extraterrestrial 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Moreover, social scientists have also shown that a given white person's feeling of warmth and closeness to Black and brown people is one of the defining factors that influence support for the Democratic Party. Trump hits the panic button, goes full antisemitic 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Elections can be tricky for social scientists to study. How Democrats Can Win Workers 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z He is generally credited with being the first real economist: a social scientist devoted to analyzing how markets function. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The tool is essential in a wide variety of fields, and has helped social scientists, epidemiologists, financial regulators, city planners and wildlife experts do their work. Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Measures of partisanship have improved, as social scientists employed data analytics to tease out the partisan impact of map changes. How to Police Gerrymanders? Some Judges Say the Courts Can’t. 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z And I think a lot of journalists and a lot of social scientists, a lot of people in public life feel very uncomfortable with that. Political "polarization" isn't the real problem in America: One pole is a lot worse than the other 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z In research published last year, Argentine social scientist Federico Zimmerman and his colleagues asked 2,632 people to have a political discussion with a stranger and then rate how much they liked that person. Extreme Views Are More Attractive Than Moderate Ones 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The Covid pandemic, striking when social scientists were already raising alarms about the health risks of loneliness and isolation for older adults, suspended many of these everyday exchanges. They May Be Just Acquaintances. They’re Important to You Anyway. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z While there, he began developing his own computing toolbox for social scientists, calling it DYSTAL. Overlooked No More: James Sakoda, Whose Wartime Internment Inspired a Social Science Tool 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z As a social scientist and a public health scholar, I see this exceptionalism as demonstrating abortion stigma at work. Mifepristone Is Safe. A Court Ruling Reducing Access to It Is Dangerous 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Benson hopes ecologists and social scientists will be encouraged to investigate more directly how human attitudes and perceptions affect the survival of large carnivores. Humans are the greatest peril to mountain lions. Can that change? 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z As social scientists who study gender and culture, we recently analyzed reactions to Drag Story Hour that were posted on social media forums. Sociology scholars: Tennessee’s drag ban rehashes old culture war narratives 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z One plausible explanation is what social scientists call "priming" — a stimulus that prompts a person to think or behave in a particular pattern. Dominion lawsuit makes clear exactly how the Fox News feedback loop works 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z "Greater diversity would diversify the questions we ask as social scientists." In economics, women's voices still struggle to be heard 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z But I think social scientists understand more about the fear and the sense of threat that this milestone concurrently causes among white Americans. The fight for progress — and why it requires reaching out to conservatives 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps, but providers must commit to becoming a meaningful part of the research, working with social scientists to design and study various training approaches. Opinion | We don’t know whether implicit bias training works 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Shortly before I met my husband in 2011, along with a group of social scientists at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, I co-founded the Costs of War Project. Children of war: The battle for young minds in an age of endless war 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z People might inherently trust the answers from a chatbot that engages in conversation more than those from a detached search engine, says Aleksandra Urman, a computational social scientist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. AI Chatbots Are Coming to Search Engines. Can You Trust Them? 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The city and county efforts are being assessed by social scientists at the University of Chicago. $500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “The deep decarbonization required is simply progressing too slowly,” said Anita Engels, a social scientist at the University of Hamburg and a co-author of the report. War, Politics, Business Make Meeting 1.5 Degrees C Target Unlikely 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z "We Profiled the 'Signs of Crisis' in 50 Years of Mass Shootings. This Is What We Found" focuses on the role of what social scientists and other experts describe as "the deaths of despair." Conspiracy nation: The rise of Trump, QAnon and mass shootings 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s “a hot topic,” said Gina Eosco, a social scientist with the Weather Program Office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z “To understand Hurston as an artist and writer, one must understand her as a social scientist,” said Strain, who teaches documentary history at Wesleyan University. How novelist Zora Neale Hurston transformed American anthropology 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z As a social scientist, I couldn’t simply accept the Christians’ own explanation: because they are right. This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z But the necessarily narrow approach of the study — social scientists distrust broad conclusions — doesn’t resolve the argument over whether prohibiting grades below 50 percent and letting kids blow off homework are good for learning. Perspective | Study provides rare control group review of standards-based grading craze 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z The U.S. government has just made it easier for social scientists to get their hands on federally collected data they need for research. Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But other social scientists have argued that there is no evidence that young people today are more politically engaged than those in the past, or that lowering the voting age would increase political participation. New Zealand and Australia Ponder a Lower Voting Age 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z With the new combination of the Dobbs decision and entrenched parental-involvement laws, though, many social scientists expect that, for teenagers who do become pregnant, the birthrate will rise again soon. Was She Ready to Be a Mother? A Judge Got to Decide. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Bail wryly adds, "I would love for Mr. Musk to learn from the many talented social scientists inside Twitter, but also from the broader field of computational social science." What's behind Elon's Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of "free speech" 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z University of Maryland social scientist Dana Fisher, who studies the environment movement and youth activists, said they’ve testified before Congress and spoken before the United Nations and at past climate negotiations. Fed up young climate activists: ‘Adults aren’t listening’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z In recent years, the haunted house boom has caught the attention of psychologists and social scientists. At a Haunted House, Friends Heighten the Terror 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Critics worried about the technology’s potential to influence voters, deriding it as a “sinister new development dreamt up by manipulative social scientists,” according to “Selling Ronald Reagan,” a book on the Hollywood actor’s political transformation. Why Am I Seeing That Political Ad? Check Your ‘Trump Resistance’ Score. 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z In Puerto Rico, there is a lot of what social scientists call social acceptance—widespread support—for rooftop solar, but individuals and businesses cannot transform the entire electric grid without government support. To Survive More Frequent Hurricanes, Puerto Rico Needs to Rethink Preparedness 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z "I would love for Mr. Musk to learn from the many talented social scientists inside Twitter," says Chris Bail. What's behind Elon's Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of "free speech" 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Kelsey Richardson, a marine and social scientist, first grasped the enormity of lost fishing gear while working in the Pacific Islands region for an intergovernmental organization. ‘Astounding’ amount of fishing gear lost in ocean each year 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z That summer, she worked with a team of engineers and social scientists on a “modern urban neighborhood program.” NASA’s Saturn V Rocket, the Moon Rock Box and the Woman Who Made Them Work Properly 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z For him, the question of how to communicate multifaceted weather risks is a complex issue that social scientists and meteorologists will have to figure out. Cone of confusion: Why some say iconic hurricane map misled Floridians 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “Time poverty” — a term social scientists use to describe not having enough time to do work or leisure activities — particularly affects women with caregiving demands and people with inflexible, low-paid jobs. Why unpaid labor is more likely to hurt women’s mental health than men’s 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “Right now, people are looking at landscapes to see who they’re serving and not serving, and why,” said Lindsay Campbell, a research social scientist with the U.S.D.A. The Optimistic Art of Mary Mattingly 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z As much as social scientists would like citizens to be informed and involved in politics and events, the reality is that we are not. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Like Hemphill, many social scientists are making the case for platforms to create a healthier space by tweaking algorithms to de-emphasize potentially uncivil content. Researchers ask: Does enforcing civility stifle online debate? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto, a senior social scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, echoed Ross' concerns about the plight of vulnerable communities. Will the last person to leave Phoenix please turn off the sun? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Clearer communication with the public about the risks of this coronavirus wave is an obvious one, said Holly Seale, an infectious disease social scientist at the University of New South Wales. As Covid Cases Rise Again, No Clear Guidance From the Top 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z After Mo become a quantitative social scientist, she decided to tap into TFA’s extensive database of applicants to test whether what she and her friends had experienced might be universal. U.S. teacher-training program boosts voting among young adults 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Many polling companies and news outlets use statisticians and social scientists to design accurate and scientific polls and to reduce errors. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Those concerns make sense to Catherine Alves, a social scientist based in Rhode Island who is currently 38 weeks pregnant. For scientists, Roe’s end raises concerns about personal safety and professional choices 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z My background gave me a greater familiarity with firearms and the people who use them than other social scientists who have studied militia groups exclusively via media reports or online message boards. Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z The international group promotes evidence-based standards of care and includes more than 3,000 doctors, social scientists and others involved in transgender health issues. Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Putin’s war also created exactly the kind of natural experiment that social scientists like Blattman seek. Review | An incremental way to peace despite Putin and the persistence of war 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The information they gather may be relayed to politicians or newspapers, and is analyzed by statisticians and social scientists. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z But social scientists say they are increasingly looking at another explanation for low fertility — a broad, international shift in young women’s attitudes and goals. U.S. birthrate ticks up 1%, halting a steady decline 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet social scientists are divided on whether the California experiment has succeeded or failed. Column: A decade ago, California adopted a strange top-two primary system. How’s it working out? 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Duncan Watts, a computational social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer, is a fan of Sunstein’s essay. Can’t Buy Me Luck: The Role of Serendipity in the Beatles’ Success 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Privacy concerns aren’t the only reason for the decline in survey participation, social scientists say. Census agency aims for a better statistical snapshot of the U.S. 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z For the many social scientists who have been studying diversity and democracy for decades, the claim that we are undertaking a “disorienting transformation” that is “without precedent” may seem odd. Review | What can stop a diverse democracy from tearing itself apart? 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, as a social scientist, I interviewed men in a World Health Organization-sponsored multicenter trial about the acceptability of an injectable male contraceptive. Opinion | Men probably would take a birth control pill 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z A social scientist says his group can no longer conduct surveys and now publishes under pseudonyms if mentioning government abuses. Government attacks on higher education in Nicaragua put research—and researchers—at risk 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate and social scientist. Weary of many disasters? UN says worse to come 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Vytenis Deimantas, 29, a social scientist from Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, said that he had trouble falling and staying asleep, but that even when he takes sleeping pills, he wakes up after only about five hours. War in Ukraine Has Left Eastern Europe Sleepless 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z In recent years, scientists have increasingly called for more input from social scientists in discussions of climate mitigation, which have historically focused on “hard” climate science and energy economics. New IPCC Report Looks at Neglected Element of Climate Action: People 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z As documented by social scientists, investigative reporters and others, the Republicans' embrace of the antisemitic QAnon conspiracy theory is now a central factor in this dynamic. Trump claims the "lunatic left" is "mutilating" children — as usual, the media looks away 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z I leave it to others to be social scientists about whether they think it is objectionable or not for other reasons.” As Both Parties Gerrymander Furiously, State Courts Block the Way 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z We are social scientists who have studied transgender youth and their families for more than a decade. Laws Vilifying Transgender Children and Their Families Are Abusive 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z As a social scientist, the example I would start with would be the Jews across Europe prior to the Holocaust because there is a very interesting variation in how Jews responded by country. A new civil war? Maybe so — but it won't look anything like the first one 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z There is substantial agreement among economists and social scientists that massively successful innovators need to be prevented from blocking the next wave of innovation, which often threatens their dominance. Review | Democracy is under threat. Are billionaires to blame? 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The current policy “leaves all kinds of loopholes,” says Filippa Lentzos, a social scientist and biosafety expert at King’s College London. Spurred by pandemic, U.S. government will revisit federal policies on risky virus research 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z For example, physicists who pride themselves on making decisions based on “hard data” may scoff at survey data from social scientists in which students describe deficiencies in their training, she says. How a culture of white privilege discourages Black students from becoming physicists 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “These changes are long overdue and certainly welcome,” says Jenny Lee, a social scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who studies research collaborations and geopolitics. The Controversial China Initiative Is Ending, and Researchers Are Relieved 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z "More and more single people are embracing their single lives, and living their single years fully," says Bella DePaulo, a social scientist and author of books such as "Singled Out." Single and looking: The rise of the solo American homebuyer 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Nelson would be the first Black woman and first social scientist to lead OSTP. Resignation leads to controversial division of White House science adviser’s job 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Cuban’s long life and love of history led him to accept reality but also the possibility of some changes under what social scientists label “dynamic conservatism.” Perspective | Will there be big education changes after pandemic? No, but look deeper. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z She and others think social scientists could help physicists address cultural, sociological, and institutional issues that might sabotage diversity initiatives. How a culture of white privilege discourages Black students from becoming physicists 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Unlike Kshiti Mohan Sen, his religiously observant Hindu grandfather, Sen is a “godless social scientist,” but his grandfather’s scholarly readings of Sanskrit texts made a lasting impression on him. Review | An economist at home in many cultures 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z This, Prof Gina Neff, a social scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute explained, was to "ensure that people still can speak their mind" - they just aren't guaranteed an audience of millions. Should bad science be taken off social media? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He added: "Remember all the ignorant nonsense from pundits/minor social scientists/Remainiacs?" Covid contract to Dominic Cummings friends ruled lawful by Appeal Court 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Many of the era’s great historians and social scientists, reflecting the view that we had reached “the end of ideology,” were pushing against a Progressive era framework that stressed class conflict. Opinion | Our obligations to history in 2022 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z A lot of the folks doing this are cognitive phenomenologists and other people who are not qualitative social scientists. How Michael Carolan broke down political barriers by asking middle-class people to pick berries 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z It has also forced many social scientists to adapt their methods during a time when in-person interviews and experiments have been next to impossible. How COVID Is Changing the Study of Human Behavior 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The goal of social scientists and therapists should be to determine how people can live well despite not knowing or understanding the scope of their loss. What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure? 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z While lawmakers struggle with the issue, social scientists continue to differ widely about how imaginary violence affects child development. Opinion | Toy sellers should disarm for the holidays 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z These views reinforce the work of social scientists who find a link between a lack of trust and inequality. Opinion | Behind Low Vaccination Rates Lurks a More Profound Social Weakness 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z I wanted to try to unpack that as a social scientist, to think about how our social situations can play a fairly big role in terms of shaping the feel and look of our filters. How Michael Carolan broke down political barriers by asking middle-class people to pick berries 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Technologies such as geotracking are helping social scientists to trace the way people really behave, not just how they say they do. How COVID Is Changing the Study of Human Behavior 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z “A lot of French people don’t care,” said Mr. Perrineau, the social scientist. In France, a Right-Wing Polemicist Tries Channeling De Gaulle to Win Votes 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Its thesis has support among other social scientists. Opinion | Overreach at Old Dominion 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Despite Glasgow’s mixed results, momentum for meaningful climate action is growing, believes Rebecca Willis, an environmental social scientist at Lancaster University. The new climate pact is more ambitous. But hopes dim for limiting warming to 1.5°C 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Six shows have stopped airing since Mr. Li took over, ranging from a weekly round table for social scientists to a nightly travel and leisure program that made way for mainland dramas. Hong Kong Broadcaster’s Swift Turn From Maverick Voice to Official Mouthpiece 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z In recent years, social scientists and journalists have noted the rise of "Friendsgivings," which focus on sharing the day with families of choice rather than families of birth. The pandemic transformed Thanksgiving. Your holiday changes may be permanent 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “His catastrophic vision speaks to a deep-rooted French pessimism,” said Pascal Perrineau, a social scientist. In France, a Right-Wing Polemicist Tries Channeling De Gaulle to Win Votes 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Students have also protested speakers with divisive political views, including the social scientist Charles Murray and the geophysicist Dorian Abbot. They Say Colleges Are Censorious. So They Are Starting a New One. 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Some social scientists believe this is in part because colorism highlights divisions within racial and ethnic groups. Latinos with dark skin face more discrimination, study finds 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Not that the “social scientists” who are pushing this complaint pay him any mind. Opinion | Keep identity politics out of baseball 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “He’s going to be thought of as one of the most important social scientists in the last half of this century,” Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner said of Dr. Csikszentmihalyi in 1986. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who described the ‘flow’ of human creativity, dies at 87 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Those data appear in the amicus brief that she helped draft with about 100 social scientists who study abortion. Hundreds of Scientists Weigh in on a High-Stakes U.S. Abortion Case 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z And the negative impact an adverse physical environment can have on a local community is something social scientists have long highlighted, according to Shona Glenn from the Scottish Land Commission. Who owns Scotland? Mapping the land in our towns and cities 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Our most valuable human resource is not a doctor, a civil rights lawyer, a social scientist or even a civil engineer? WSU coach: State’s priorities 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “This is a super striking, robust result,” says Laura Alessandretti, a computational social scientist at the Technical University of Denmark, who was not involved in the study but co-wrote an accompanying commentary. Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Among them are engineers, economists, public health workers, critical geographers, social scientists and artists. $15 million grant is awarded to university researchers finding solution to food waste 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But my own research, and that of other social scientists, has shown this to be untrue. To Teach Students about Climate Change, ‘Just the Facts’ Isn’t Enough 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Those findings align almost exactly with what epidemiologists, social scientists and local health workers and clinicians have been saying for a year and a half. COVID deaths severely undercounted among communities of color, new study finds 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z And while there are certainly exceptions, professors in physics and chemistry are less likely than humanists or social scientists to venture into controversial political territory and find their academic freedom under attack. Opinion | The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z According to social scientists and designers who study this sort of thing, color and multiplicity are key factors in cultivating emotional well-being and joy. Plant early-blooming bulbs now — lots of them! — for dark-defying rays of yellow sunshine 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Having tackled the availability of food and breastfeeding practices, the grassroots social scientists moved to another determinant of infant malnutrition they had identified: domestic violence and, more broadly, patriarchy. Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Facebook apologized last week for providing 110 social scientists from the research consortium Social Science One with incomplete data on its users from the United States. Biden’s vaccine mandates, bad Facebook data, and a doctored portrait 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Some epidemiologists and social scientists are calling for them to open fully prevent further loss of learning in children. In remote Indian village, teacher turns walls into blackboards to close school gap 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Indian epidemiolgists and social scientists have asked authorities to reopen classes for all children, saying the benefits outweigh the risks, especially as poor, rural children are missing out on online education. Remote learning is setting back millions of South Asian children - UNICEF 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z However, its ethics committee of about 20 managers, social scientists and engineers who review potential deals unanimously voted against the project at an October meeting, Pizzo Frey said. Money, mimicry and mind control: Big Tech slams ethics brakes on AI 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z For years, social scientists have warned that because of declining birthrates, retiring baby boomers and severe immigration restrictions, we’re approaching an era of labor scarcity. Opinion | Good News: There’s a Labor Shortage. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Between 100 and 120 people should be working at the hub by the end of the first year, he says, including epidemiologists and data scientists, but also potentially social scientists. In Berlin, a new WHO center aims to keep an eye on emerging diseases 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z In a new essay at the Conversation, social scientists Jeffrey Kucik and Don Leonard analyze the plight of the working poor in America, starting with the baseline income required to survive in America. Why Americans hate and fear the poor: Joanne Samuel Goldblum on the price of inequality 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z One of the big demographic questions, social scientists said, is what will become of the categories. Behind the Surprising Jump in Multiracial Americans, Several Theories 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Some social scientists theorized that another potential reason for the decrease was that more Americans who previously identified as white on the census are now choosing more than one race. Census shows growing numbers of Hispanic, Asian and multiracial people in the U.S. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We speak to a social scientist, a folklorist and a politician about their efforts to understand the plants and animals affected by this historic drought. Podcast: Drought threatens iconic plants. Lawns, watch out 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z As social scientists, we think it's important to distinguish child-free individuals from those who are childless or not yet parents. Far more adults don’t want children than previously though 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z There is no single reason for the surge, but social scientists point to many potential drivers. An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up. 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Although this was bad news from a public health perspective, it meant social scientists were able to investigate whether churchgoing during the pandemic did indeed lead to a higher level of infection. Faith in numbers: Is church attendance linked to higher rates of coronavirus? 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Now that we’re emerging from the restrictions of pandemic life, social scientists say it’s an ideal time to start thinking about what you’ve learned in the past year. Need a Reset? The End of Pandemic Life Can Be a Fresh Start. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The results were interpreted by pro-slavery politicians and sympathetic social scientists to find a considerably higher rate of mental illness among Black people in the Northern states than among those in the South. Psychiatry Confronts Its Racist Past, and Tries to Make Amends 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Given all the confounding variables at work during the pandemic, no social scientist worth her salt would proclaim such a complex experiment complete — much less successful — with just a year’s worth of data. Opinion | Baltimore is conducting a dangerous experiment in law and disorder 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The lopsided Monopoly rules were developed by social scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, nearly a decade ago as part of an experiment on money’s effect on human behavior. Beyond Pandemic’s Upheaval, a Racial Wealth Gap Endures 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z But as documented repeatedly by social scientists and other experts, the logic and expectation of Black people's deference to white people and white authority still remains. Republicans have a dream: The end of democracy and the return of Jim Crow 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Their works analyzing “large” historical processes provided later social scientists with three working propositions. How ‘Good’ Social Movements Can Triumph over ‘Bad’ Ones 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In the spring of 1982, social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling published an article about policing in the Atlantic titled “Broken Windows.” Opinion | As cities rebuild, remember that people don’t just fear crime. They fear disorder. 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In an effort to answer, or at least address, these questions, I recently spoke with Robert Putnam, one of America and the world's most distinguished and influential social scientists. Legendary social scientist Robert Putnam: We may be on the cusp of a new Progressive era 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The most important finding of the Stockton study may be one known to social scientists for decades about the care taken by lower-income households to manage their resources. Column: Stockton study shows that universal basic income can be life-changing 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Bernstein’s version unabashedly echoes Mackay’s, enriching its analysis with the findings of modern social scientists who study the irrational human behavior that intrigues both authors. Review | Why false narratives so often trump reality 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Focusing primarily on “good” movements, a new generation of social scientists sought to identify the environmental circumstances, organizational features and strategic choices that increased the likelihood that “good intentions” would translate into tangible change. How ‘Good’ Social Movements Can Triumph over ‘Bad’ Ones 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z "This is another enormous example of an environmental justice issue," said Emily Grubert, a social scientist and engineer at Georgia Tech who studies electricity systems. The crisis in Texas underscores the deadly risks when the grid goes down 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z When the Civil Rights Movement began, some social scientists were dismissive of activists and described protests as unthinking mobs. Social Justice Movements, Exomoons and a Century of Bird Banding 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “That tells us there’s discretion somewhere in that process, and they’re exercising that discretion,” says study co-author Dean Knox, a computational social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often than Black Officers 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z In recent years, research by ecologists, economists, and social scientists has shown that many forestry projects around the world have failed because they didn’t adequately address fundamental social and ecological issues. The Great Green Wall could save Africa. But can the massive forestry effort learn from past mistakes? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Still, some social scientists have not stopped asking: What's causing the U.S. health disadvantage? Are conservative policies shortening American lives? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Alondra Nelson, nominated to be deputy director for science and society at OSTP, is a social scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who studies genetics, race and other societal issues. Biden Names Top Geneticist Eric Lander as Science Adviser 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z For one thing, many budding social scientists were no longer watching those demonstrations at a remove, on television or in literature; they were active participants. Making Sense of the ‘Mob’ Mentality 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Two British social scientists issued the initial call for a global fossil fuel treaty. Op-Ed: Treat fossil fuels like nukes. Endorse a new nonproliferation treaty 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Many of today’s economic and health disparities stem from past policies and practices that were explicitly racist, some social scientists say, arguing that measures aimed at particular races were necessary to undo the damage. A Covid-19 Relief Fund Was Only for Black Residents. Then Came the Lawsuits. 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Sawhney, who has a doctorate in biology, believes NIH leaders may find the Shorter Lives conclusions easy to dismiss because the agency favors bench scientists over social scientists. Are conservative policies shortening American lives? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Mothers don’t need balance. They need justice,” wrote social scientist Caitlyn Collins. COVID Has Laid Bare the Inequities That Face Mothers in STEM 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The administration later withdrew that request, and social scientists are worried the time crunch could impact data quality. Massive 2021 U.S. spending bill leaves research advocates hoping for more 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z That is key, says Maria Fitzpatrick, a social scientist at Cornell University who studies the health effects of retirement. Why retirement isn’t always a healthy choice 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z But they also weigh trust over someone who looks like them when making political donations, according to research from social scientist Sono Shah. Harnessing the Asian American vote 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z At 15, he quit school, declared himself a communist and embarked on an independent career as a writer, social scientist and filmmaker. Jan Myrdal, radical and rebellious Swedish writer, dies at 93 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Governments are hamstrung by the problem of climate action, says Rebecca Willis, an environmental social scientist at Lancaster University who helped choose expert speakers for the U.K. Jury duty for global warming: citizen groups help solve the puzzle of climate action 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “A whole group of social scientists and demographers will be ready to grab those data and compare them to independent estimates,” Santos said. What the Supreme Court’s rulings mean for the 2020 Census and Trump’s attempt to exclude the undocumented from the count 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Today the research consensus among social scientists is that some fact-checking methods significantly reduce the prevalence of false beliefs. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z To do this, they need the input of humanists and social scientists who understand how language actually works. How Speech-Recognition Software Discriminates against Minority Voices 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z But so far, there hasn’t been a coordinated effort to offer support and resources, says Jenny Lee, a social scientist who studies scientific collaboration and international relations at the University of Arizona in Tucson. US civil-rights group offers support to researchers facing China scrutiny 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Some of the six academics — all social scientists — have spoken out against government policies. Daily briefing: Penrose, Ghez and Genzel win physics Nobel for black-hole research 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “Looking at our data, we were quite surprised to find that younger people across the world over are willing to forgo a larger share of their income than older people”, said Brück, a social scientist. Young people as diligent about Covid measures as older peers, survey finds 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z But increasingly, scholars of constitutional law, as well as social scientists, are beginning to question the way we have come to think about the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “We’ve laid it out pretty clearly, but nobody’s doing anything. So now it’s kind of up to the social scientists.” Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z By one highly respected gauge, self-reported levels of happiness are at their lowest since social scientists began asking such questions half a century ago. Opinion | Trump has made Americans’ lives worse. Here’s the proof. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Director Jeff Orlowski interviews former tech execs, historians and social scientists but apparently doesn’t trust them enough to tell the story. Review: Put down that phone, urges doc ‘The Social Dilemma’ 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The census does not simply provide social scientists with a feast of fresh demographic data. Will the 2020 census numbers be good enough, and how soon will we know? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But even small changes in behavior are greatly amplified by behavioral contagion — the social scientist’s term for how ideas and behaviors spread from person to person like infectious diseases. Behavioral Contagion Could Spread the Benefits of a Carbon Tax 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z And when quantitative social scientists study race, they often just include a binary variable for Black or white in an equation. How to Study Racial Disparities 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z “This is a crisis layered upon multiple crises — an economic crisis, a political crisis, a health crisis,” says social scientist Charlotte Karam. Daily briefing: Russia approves ‘reckless’ coronavirus vaccine 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z From Boyle Heights to Pomona and even Japan, according to historians and social scientists, non-Latinos have long adopted Chicano dress, cultural customs and even the spoken accent associated with California barrio culture. Is Shia LaBeouf in 'brownface'? Cholo role raises question of who gets to adopt whose culture 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Juan Declet-Barreto, a social scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists who works on climate vulnerability, laid part of the blame with President Trump for difficulties in disaster response. Hurricane, Fire, Covid-19: Disasters Expose the Hard Reality of Climate Change 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z This result is an example of what social scientists call “motivated reasoning,” our tendency to decide what evidence to accept based on the conclusion we prefer. Overcoming Psychological Biases Is the Best Treatment against COVID-19 Yet 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z The researchers noted that although billions of federal dollars were pouring into biomedical research for a vaccine, there seemed to be virtually no funding set aside for social scientists to investigate hesitancy around vaccines. Mistrust of a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Imperil Widespread Immunity 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z “I think the concern among many activists and social scientists is with the moderate observer, who’s now more sympathetic to the protesters. Will that person’s attitudes shift back over time?” Some Republicans Have Grown Wary of Protests Against Racism, Poll Shows 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z As social scientists put it, the traditional numbers ignore the “zero values.” Opinion | The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z “Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers. Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don't Fit Their Worldview 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Even social scientists who are aware of their own bias do not overcome it, as they admit on camera. Three extraordinary women run the gauntlet of science — a documentary 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z So suggests the COVID-19 Social Change Survey, a daily, nationally representative survey about the pandemic run by Northwestern University social scientists since mid-March. Opinion | The U.S. is falling behind its peers. Americans — if not their leaders — are starting to notice. 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Even as it functions as a powerful engine of prosperity — the accelerant of human progress — innovation remains the “great puzzle” that baffles technologists, economists and social scientists alike. Review | An exploration of ‘How Innovation Works’ 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Physicist Neil Johnson at George Washington University in Washington DC, and lead author of the hate study, is accustomed to criticism from social scientists. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z And sorrow alone doesn’t tell the whole story, says Desmond Patton, a social scientist at Columbia University in New York City. Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever? 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The United States has a long history of white participation in civil rights protests, but the current outpouring of support is unprecedented, historians and social scientists agree. White Americans turn out for Floyd protests, but will they work for change? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z I wondered whether to include any research on the subject since it could be seen as somehow definitive rather than, as you observe, part of a larger discussion among social scientists. Train wreck Georgia primary raises fears for fall 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z "The social scientists were desperate to usher in their era of a new normal. They've been predicting Trump's imminent political demise since day one." Laura Ingraham: 'Experts' wrong about Trump once again, May jobs report shows 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Johnson, for his part, is concerned that too many social scientists are rushing into computational approaches without proper training. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z What are social scientists and researchers doing to help? A Civil Rights Expert Explains the Social Science of Police Racism 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z This should marshal scientists and social scientists, steer the sharing of information and resources, link disciplines and ensure that academic and commercial researchers work together. Pandemic research: UK must coordinate 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Economists are notoriously less likely than other social scientists to look outside their own discipline, and medical and natural scientists are not accustomed to looking to the social sciences for insight. Economists must collaborate courageously 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “Rather than start with a theory,” de Figueiredo added, “he started with a phenomenon. He was an economist, but he was fundamentally a social scientist.” Oliver Williamson, Nobel-winning economist who studied organizations, dies at 87 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Now, she and other computational social scientists are exploring massive and unruly data sets, extracting meaning from society’s digital imprint. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z And it's also important to keep up with what social scientists and philosophers have to say--because science doesn't happen in a vacuum and can have dangerous consequences. Will the Nature-Nurture Debate Ever End? 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Now comes Covid-19, and the fear among many families, social scientists and public health experts that racial bias might be contributing to the disproportionately high rate at which the novel coronavirus is killing African-Americans. Questions of Bias in Covid-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z That task fell to the agency’s office of research — a group of economists and other social scientists that included Mr. Lanning. Trump Appointees Manipulated Agency’s Payday Lending Research, Ex-Staffer Claims 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z He’s talked at length with immunologists, epidemiologists and social scientists about slowing the coronavirus’s spread. The billionaire who cried pandemic 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Some social scientists are concerned that the computer scientists flooding into the field with ambitions as big as their data sets are not sufficiently familiar with previous research. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Regardless, social scientists agree that the marriages of today are reflective of past generations. Social and economic implications: U.S. marriage rate falls to lowest level in 120 years 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z This means mobilizing hundreds of community workers and building partnerships between local government officials, public-health experts, social scientists and other community leaders. Let Africa into the market for COVID-19 diagnostics 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “But as a social scientist, I do wonder: what is driving that?” 'Quarantinis' and beer chugs: Is the pandemic driving us to drink? 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Some social scientists and historians argue that this pandemic could become a turning point in social history – on a par with the New Deal in the US or the post-war Labour government in the UK. The state we're in: will the pandemic revolutionise the role of government? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Some computational social scientists who hail from fields such as physics and engineering argue that many social-science theories are too nebulous or poorly defined to be tested. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The pandemic is an opportunity to hit the reset button, with scientists and social scientists playing an important part. Without food, there can be no exit from the pandemic 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z And as social scientists will tell you, an agitated state is not the best moment to decide things - particularly momentous ones. Virus-era decisions: Way too many, and each with high stakes 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Cooper weaves together the thoughts of leading scientists, science fiction writers and social scientists to ponder these questions. What UFOs can tell us about life on Earth 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Entire offices were shut, including a team of social scientists working on pandemic response. The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Although widely criticized as an oversimplification, the article struck a nerve: more than a decade later, social scientists repeatedly invoke the Wired article as a signal that the relevance of social-science theory was under attack. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Unlike physicists or biologists, social scientists are frequently constrained from using controlled experiments to test hypotheses. Social scientists scramble to study pandemic, in real time 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “Doctors disagree about things all the time. My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist,” he said on CNN. Trump’s Aggressive Advocacy of Malaria Drug for Treating Coronavirus Divides Medical Community 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Berman said, “You know, as a social scientist who's read the studies, there are potential side effects. There is in fact something to lose potentially, correct?” Peter Navarro spars with CNN host over potential hydroxychloroquine coronavirus treatment 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist. I have a PhD, and I understand how to read statistical studies.” Coronavirus US live: Trump tweets about 'light at end of tunnel' while experts warn of worst week yet 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z But many conventional social scientists were unimpressed by the initial fruits of the revolution, and found some of its methods questionable. How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z For example, some social scientists are retooling existing studies, hoping to capitalize on the data they already collected to see how the virus is changing things. Social scientists scramble to study pandemic, in real time 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “Women are pretty similar to men, as long as they stay in the system and do not drop out,” says computational social scientist Roberta Sinatra. Daily briefing: The best books on past pandemics to read now 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z While public health officials are no doubt correct that social distancing is necessary, as a social scientist I would add that it is a necessary evil. Opinion | How social distancing could ultimately teach us how to be less lonely 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z According to a group of social scientists who recently convened in London to discuss the coronavirus emergency, simply deploying evidence to "correct" rumors sometimes misses the point or undermines trust. Don’t just debunk COVID-19 myths. Learn from them. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “We keep talking about women and we do nothing to educate men,” said Deepa Narayan, a social scientist who recently published a book on how women are treated in India. Men Convicted in Delhi Bus Rape Are Hanged in India 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z As the coronavirus touches on virtually every part of life around the globe, social scientists are rushing to suck up real-time data on how people are responding to the unfolding pandemic. Social scientists scramble to study pandemic, in real time 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Mark Erickson, a social scientist at the University of Brighton, UK, and co-authors used the satisfaction scores to rank universities in a ‘league table’, similar to rankings for football teams in the UK Premier League. UK academic faculty staff members excoriate university-management practices in survey 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist and physician at Yale University, thinks it does, but he recognizes that questions around closing schools are difficult. Does closing schools slow the spread of the novel coronavirus? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z With the help of social scientists, however, it became clear that much of the Ebola-related misinformation and resistance was rooted in legitimate and deep-seated concerns. Don’t just debunk COVID-19 myths. Learn from them. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Jeff Winchell, a computational social scientist and graduate student at Harvard University, crunched the numbers on tweet data and found that Sanders' supporters online behave the same as everyone else. There is quantitative evidence disproving the "Bernie Bro" myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The study was led by Katherine Christian, a social scientist at Federation University Australia in Ballarat, who is collecting data for her PhD thesis on the challenges faced by early-career researchers in the country. Australian junior scientists report damaging lack of support at work 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z To solve these problems, economists, natural and social scientists and engineers must all engage with and learn from each other. Economists and scientists: solve big societal problems by working together 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z They were social scientists from Los Angeles, Texas and different parts of Mexico including Chiapas, Tijuana and Mexico City. Central Americans have long migrated north. Today, their studies are getting their due 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The platform serves as a way for WHO and other agencies to get evidence-based input from social scientists about efforts to contain epidemics. Don’t just debunk COVID-19 myths. Learn from them. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “The first interesting thing we notice is that we could, in fact, replicate their experiment,” says Sharad Goel, a co-author of the new study and a computational social scientist at Stanford. Will Past Criminals Reoffend? Humans Are Terrible at Guessing, and Computers Aren’t Much Better 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Consider this ingenious experiment that social scientists conducted late in the 2012 presidential campaign. Opinion | Why President Trump’s bid for the black vote is unlikely to bear fruit 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The people I know best are my colleagues in the College of Arts & Letters, who include philosophers, historians, anthropologists, psychologists, social scientists, artists and musicians. What’s Wrong with Physics 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The latest on a new virus from Wuhan in China, and social scientists' battle with bots. Podcast: Linking Australian bushfires to climate change, and Asimov's robot ethics 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Another approach is to embed social scientists in government and other response agencies during an emergency, Leach says. Don’t just debunk COVID-19 myths. Learn from them. 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “Bots are designed to behave online like people,” says Jon-Patrick Allem, a social scientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Social scientists battle bots to glean insights from online chatter 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Each time, though, one of the two students, secretly cooperating with the social scientists, announced that he or she intended to give entirely to Obama. Opinion | Why President Trump’s bid for the black vote is unlikely to bear fruit 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Of those who departed, the numbers were greatest among social scientists, soil conservationists, hydrologists and experts in the physical sciences — chemistry, geology, astronomy and physics. Science ranks are growing thin in Trump administration 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Murray is a social scientist who critics say uses pseudoscience to link intelligence and race in the 1994 book “The Bell Curve.” which he co-authored. Speaker invited back to Middlebury 3 years after protest 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The report involved social scientists, natural scientists, industrialists, environmentalists and policymakers emerging from their silos to talk to each other to understand how humans alter the global environment. Architecture, design and behavioural science need to get talking about sustainability 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Like Lehman, some social scientists are creating their own bots to conduct social experiments. Social scientists battle bots to glean insights from online chatter 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Notice how social scientists’ political orientations track their views in a typical “stairway” fashion across virtually all of the questions. Are Social Scientists Any Less Biased than the Rest of Us? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z If these social scientists with fancy degrees are so easily snookered by the Fox News worldview, good luck getting through to people who are more invested in it. There's no "one weird trick" to get conservatives to vote for Democrats. So forget it 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z After publishing our series, we received scores of emails from social scientists, government officials and welfare recipients around the world. Support the Guardian – and help us highlight the rise of digital inequality 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z For example, we asked our respondents three questions that are commonly used by social scientists to indicate loneliness. Workers in the gig economy feel lonely and powerless 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z All three cases highlight the lack of regulations surrounding corporate use of personal data, says social scientist Jay Shaw, who studies artificial intelligence and health at the University of Toronto in Canada. Google health-data scandal spooks researchers 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Our basic argument is that social scientists bring their partly inherited political orientations with them into their professional training and roles. Are Social Scientists Any Less Biased than the Rest of Us? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Mauricio Torres, a social scientist at the University of Pará, said it was no coincidence that deforestation stopped at the borders of indigenous territory and the extractive reserves of indigenous people. The Amazon: on the frontline of a global battle to tackle the climate crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z As the country looks ahead to President Donald Trump’s possible impeachment proceedings, as social scientists, we anticipate that not only will the Americans’ opinions be polarized, but so will their emotions. Democrat or Republican, Americans are angry, frustrated and overwhelmed 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z We presented our respondents with a set of questions social scientists often use to measure powerlessness. Workers in the gig economy feel lonely and powerless 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It is in the nature of social scientists these days to believe that, on the basis of hard data, they can calculate exactly where that tipping point is. Perspective | Punitive taxes on billionaires are bad politics, bad economics and just plain unfair 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z With the social scientists, it was the opposite. "Why Trust Science?": Naomi Oreskes on the long struggle for truth, and what went wrong 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The humanists and social scientists at these universities should help create an intercollegiate athletics ethos that isn’t tied to an out-of-date notion of amateurism. Opinion: The Pac-12 should defy the NCAA and embrace California's law letting student-athletes earn dollars 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z “We as social scientists live in a society where clearly the general social and political environment affects the questions we ask,” said Arindrajit Dube, a labor economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Democrats’ Bolder Stand on Labor Reflects Nation’s Ideological Shift 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Don’t hold out for a job in academia, says social scientist Tage Rai — live your best life, and try to do your best work, now. Daily briefing: Why squaring the circle is catnip for cranks 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “They interviewed him on TV a thousand times,” the social scientist says, usually to showcase Tiyip’s rise from a humble farming background to his prominent position in Uyghur—and Chinese—society. ‘There’s no hope for the rest of us.’ Uyghur scientists swept up in China’s massive detentions 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “Results from this initiative are promising,” says Magdalena Saldaña, a social scientist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. Privacy hurdles thwart Facebook democracy research 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Children typically self-identify their gender by age 2 or 3, according to research conducted by Leaper and other social scientists. These L.A. parents don't want to assign a gender to their baby, so the government did it for them 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Recognizing how ecosystem decline and climate-related events can affect mental health is important, says Neville Ellis, a social scientist at the University of Western Australia in Perth. ‘Ecological grief’ grips scientists witnessing Great Barrier Reef’s decline 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z An Australian social scientist is investigating how scientists and others working on the Great Barrier Reef responded to the devastating bleaching events of 2016 and 2017. Daily briefing: It’s time to save the world 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z As soon as the DRC outbreak began, the WHO flew her to North Kivu, asking her to lead a team of 40 other social scientists. Exclusive: Behind the front lines of the Ebola wars 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Nature explores how social scientists and public-health researchers are mining the numbers to address pressing questions, such as whether the police are disproportionately quick to shoot black civilians and those from other minority groups. Daily briefing: Why physicists love the many-worlds theory 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Many communication theorists and social scientists have tried to understand how false beliefs persist by modeling the spread of ideas as a contagion. How Misinformation Spreads—and Why We Trust It 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Funders and researchers are losing patience with Facebook because the company has failed to provide all the data it promised to social scientists. Daily briefing: “Exceptionally rare” skull puts new face to human origins 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z "We'll leave it to the social scientists in white coats to explain why, but we reckon in turbulent times, people like to be reminded of things they loved in years gone by," says a spokesman. Why are retro sweets tasting success? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Critically, technologists should collaborate with social scientists to propose interventions—and they would be wise to imagine how attackers might cripple these tools or turn them around to use for their own means. Everyone Is an Agent in the New Information Warfare 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The broader initiative includes decision and social scientists, statisticians, computer scientists, and folks from the physical environmental sciences as well as ecologists. An ecologist with an eye toward forecasting the future 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The prolific social scientist and public intellectual Arthur Brooks is the latest to enter the antipolarization fray. How To Love Your Enemies 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z A group of social scientists has come up with the concept of “implicit bias,” which many trainers aim to diagnose and treat, even though there is scant evidence that implicit bias reliably affects behavior. The Fight to Redefine Racism 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z "There is a role for BECCS, surely, but not at the scale the models are showing," says Rob Bellamy, an environmental social scientist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Bioenergy plantations could fight climate change—but threaten food crops, U.N. panel warns 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s a fact proven by social scientists, and the best way of understanding how the police could treat anybody with such disdain. 'I could have shot you in front of your fucking kids': how cops dehumanize black people | Paul Butler 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z “It very much fits with the way social scientists think about dishonesty,” he said. Lost wallet? More cash means you’re likelier to get it back 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Even LaTeX critics such as Daniel Allington, a computational social scientist at King’s College London who has inveighed on his blog against what he calls ‘LaTeX fetish’, acknowledges that it handles equations better than alternatives. Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Then, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the growing visibility of gay people in popular culture began to trigger a major shift in attitudes, social scientists said. Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly? 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z “You can apply even as someone without a track record,” notes Henry Sauermann, a social scientist at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin who has studied the reward model. The hunt for the lesser-known funding source 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z He drew on the influential social scientist Charles Murray, an advocate of eliminating the welfare state, to support his gospel that the problem that needed solving was not poverty — it was welfare. Review | Piecing together the real woman behind Reagan’s ‘welfare queen’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It will bring together scientists and engineers with social scientists. Radical plan to repair Earth's climate 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Research by social scientists and others has demolished that fiction. Racism on the brain: a neuroscientist explains how the world moved right 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The transformation in the Augustine family parallels a shift in public opinion that social scientists say is unlike any other of our time. Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly? 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Mishra’s book stands out from the others in one important way: The author is a literary mind rather than social scientist, and concentrates on individual novelists and philosophers. Fascism is on the minds of book buyers — and publishers are taking notice 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The term “neurodiversity” gained popular currency in recent years but was first used by Judy Singer, an Australian social scientist, herself autistic, and first appeared in print in the Atlantic in 1998. The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Murray is a social scientist who critics say uses pseudoscience to link intelligence and race. Citing safety, college cancels Polish conservative’s speech 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z I spoke with the social scientist and professor Dr Erin Seekamp about the link between climate change and cultural heritage, which I see playing out in Natchez. Talking about climate change in conservative places is hard. But we can’t afford not to 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z And families like the Augustines were forced to resolve an internal dilemma that social scientists call “cognitive dissonance.” Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly? 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Around this time, notes Harrington, social scientists emerged as the third influential force, aligning with psychoanalysts on the purported role of ‘toxic’ families in causing psychiatric disease. The sorrows of psychiatry 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z NSF officials hopes hundreds of groups will do likewise, including social scientists. Novel NSF initiative seeks nimble scientists to create better tools to tackle societal problems. But act now 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z And, if Thailand ends up with a junta-backed government as a result of the latest election, social scientists such as himself who study democracy and human rights face an uncertain future. What Thailand’s long-awaited election could mean for science 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Now, she and other social scientists are trying to fill the gap. Does jailing people before trial make cities safer? Not always, new research suggests 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Many academic women and people from minority backgrounds will be familiar with the frustrations expressed by social scientist Grace Krause in her poem, “I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague”. Daily briefing: The sold-out science-based board game about birds 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Fourth, developing a strong capacity for social scientists to engage with communities and change behaviours. How Africa can quell the next disease outbreaks 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z It is unusual for journalists and social scientists to collaborate in this fashion, not least because we tend to operate on different timescales. Don't try to silence populists – listen to them 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “In every newly affected town, W.H.O. and partner social scientists and anthropologists work with local leaders to understand the context and tailor the approach to what works,” he said. The Battle Against One of the Worst Ebola Epidemics Ever Is in Trouble 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The subject of decades of research, social scientists and academics say it’s an important component of long-term academic success. Building Bots and Confidence 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Twelve years ago, social scientists cracked the code on how to get Americans to vote. Can Peer Pressure Defeat Trump? 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “My inbox is other people’s priorities” bothers me as a social scientist, but also as a human being. Opinion | No, You Can’t Ignore Email. It’s Rude. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Over time, I hope that efforts like SSO become easier for legitimate social scientists to undertake, and that similar tools become available to journalists. Facebook is giving some power back to its users — but very slowly 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Small salubrious effects spread among the majority of people could be masking a significant decline in health among the few — and a deepening of health inequities, warn some social scientists. How the next recession could save lives 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The good news is that psychologists and other social scientists are working hard to understand what prevents people from seeing through propaganda. Opinion | Why Do People Fall for Fake News? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z As a social scientist, Mr. Glazer valued hard facts over good intentions. Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z I think we social scientists were looking for white identity in the wrong places. The Surprisingly Complex Connection Between White Identity Politics and Explicit Racism 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z They get the message that doing well in school is not masculine, social scientists say. ‘It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way.’ Why Some Boys Can Keep Up With Girls in School. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Ryan hands much of the credit to social scientists working for the various agencies involved in the response. Fighting Ebola is hard. In Congo, fake news makes it harder 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They are simplified, are not standardized and often do not map straightforwardly onto the validated instruments that clinical or social scientists use to measure constructs such as ‘well-being’ and ‘technology use’. Screen time: how much is too much? 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Dr. Birnbaum, journalist and former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal once said, combined “the manner of an Oxford don, the method of a German social scientist and the passion of an Old Testament prophet.” Norman Birnbaum, left-wing sociologist and journalist with the Nation, dies at 92 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Census Bureau is making waves among social scientists with what it calls a “sea change” in how it plans to safeguard the confidentiality of data it releases from the decennial census. Can a set of equations keep U.S. census data private? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z So it was inevitable that social scientists would discover that people universally seek freedom. The Case for Scientific Humanism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z To complicate things further, a single research team may include social scientists, natural scientists, engineers and experts from other fields, all of whom use their own technical languages and methods for their work. The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z There are signs of a backlash, led by so-called free-range parents, but social scientists say the relentlessness of modern-day parenting has a powerful motivation: economic anxiety. The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The apparent lack of concern about the toxic air among ordinary folk gives federal and local politicians the cover they need for failing to address the problem, say pollution activists and social scientists. India's capital chokes as pollution levels hit the worst this year 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s so common that creating art, known to social scientists as “symbolic behavior,” seems to be an important part of what it means to be human. The world’s oldest cave paintings were probably made by Neanderthals 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Yet the practical training in the camps often appears to be rudimentary, said Adrian Zenz, a social scientist at the European School of Culture and Theology who has studied the campaign. China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Long before the rise of Mr. Trump — for more than half a century — social scientists have tried to figure out why some seemingly mild-mannered people gravitate toward a strongman. Opinion | Is There Such a Thing as an Authoritarian Voter? 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Eagleman’s tale is an interpretation of what psychologists and social scientists call collective memory. Maths shows how we lose interest 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Here were synthetic chemists, biologists, paediatric surgeons, radiologists, scientific glassblowers and instrument technicians; and social scientists from anthropologists to ethnographers. Science in hand: how art and craft can boost reproducibility 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z As social scientists, we argue that getting drivers to change their behaviour might not be so simple, because the behaviour does not depend only on prices. Road charges in real time are not a silver bullet 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Shiv Viswanathan, a social scientist and a professor at Jindal Global Law School, said North Sentinel Island was a protected area and not open to tourists. American believed killed by isolated tribe on Indian island 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Shiv Viswanathan, a social scientist and a professor at Jindal Global Law School, said the North Sentinel Island was a protected area and not open to tourists. American 'killed by isolated Indian island tribe' 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Shiv Viswanathan, a social scientist at the Jindal Global Law School, said the island is a protected area and not open to tourist. American believed to have been killed by isolated tribe on Indian island 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Concerned about this over-enthusiastic response, the team enlisted social scientists to investigate the motivation driving the second group of volunteers—36 of the 64 who enrolled in the February study. The Ethical Quandary of Human Infection Studies 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “As a chemist, you might collaborate with economists, social scientists or artificial-intelligence researchers.” Why a European agency post can be an excellent destination for researchers 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z We know that racial resentment, measured under what social scientists call the “modern racism” scale, is the No. 1 driver of support for Donald Trump. Race, class and justice: After the midterms, a new way forward for Democrats 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Successful candidates do tend to out-fundraise their opponent, but as social scientists are fond of telling us, “correlation is not causation” — snowdrifts don’t produce cold weather. Opinion | Can out-of-state money swing elections? Don’t Beto on it. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Their ambition was nothing less than to change how social scientists see the world by putting institutions at the very heart of their discipline. Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z ‘After the election, much the same way that Jane Goodall studies chimpanzees in the wild, social scientists and out-of-touch Democrats launched anthropologic-like surveys on the white working class,” Bradlee writes in his introduction. Trump did not invent American bigotry. But new books argue that he released it – and he has no incentive to extinguish it. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z And Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is fascinated by the results. Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Next month, researchers, policymakers, ethicists and social scientists will meet in Hong Kong for the second International Summit on Human Gene Editing. Use the patent system to regulate gene editing 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “I’m only a social scientist. But I do believe in the power of data.” Mel Hall hopes data-driven career will take him to Congress 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As a step toward changing that, Dr. Di Rienzo has helped organize a meeting of social scientists, geneticists and journalists at Harvard next week to discuss the social implications of the field’s newest tools. Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed) 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Prof. Matthew Klingle says the building supports “scientists, social scientist, artists and humanities scholars” which allows for “collaborative research and teaching.” Bowdoin College opens new environmental studies center 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z As the social scientist William Galston has sharply observed: “Few leaders and movements in the west dare to challenge the idea of democracy itself. Not so for liberalism, which has come under mounting attack.” Could populism actually be good for democracy? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The advisory committee should also comprise scientists, physicians, ethicists, social scientists, historians, lawyers and representatives from the private sector. Use the patent system to regulate gene editing 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z There is a long-standing argument among social scientists as well as other researchers that those who benefit from privilege are unaware of its existence. The Brett Kavanaugh case: This is how white male privilege is destroying America 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Addressing the problem is difficult because there are few data that show which interventions are effective, says Ana Maria Muñoz-Boudet, a social scientist at the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice. Expanding the reach of science 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Libraries are not the kinds of institutions that most social scientists, policymakers, and community leaders usually bring up when they discuss social capital and how to build it. Palaces for the people: at the library, everyone is welcome 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Models of scientists’ careers don’t need to be good predictors to be useful, says Vincent Traag, a computational social scientist at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University. Predicting scientific success 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z To broaden the range of considerations included, we would like to see ethicists, modellers and social scientists, governments and civil-society groups collaborate on climate-mitigation assessments. Don’t deploy negative emissions technologies without ethical analysis 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z One framework for considering Eleanor Roosevelt’s contribution is the moral dichotomy social scientists call “harm/care.” Donald Trump vs. international law: Overturning the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z There are predictable and consistent reasons that people vote, Rogers and other social scientists found: We don’t want to disappoint our peers, family, and friends. Inside the manipulative, tricky, devious, world-saving plan of the Environmental Voter Project 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “They said, ‘Hey, this guy was one of the founders of our empire and we have to honor him,’ ” said Mr. Aikins, 38, a German social scientist and activist with Ghanaian roots. The Big Hole in Germany’s Nazi Reckoning? Its Colonial History 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Early on, journalists, social scientists and politicians focused on how these technologies would destroy or create jobs. Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery — so they are practicing in the shadows 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z This is a repeated finding by social scientists, pollsters and other researchers. Author and activist Tim Wise: “The Republican Party is a white identity cult” 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z To be fair, the multivariable mesh of correlations in all these studies makes inferring direct causal links difficult for social scientists to untangle. Abortion Is a Problem to Be Solved, Not a Moral Issue 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Brown, a mad social scientist with a scraggly beard and whistle, issues jersey numbers based on his ranking of players’ importance to the program. Gun violence in New Orleans has given a champion football coach one mission: Keep his players alive 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Most social scientists who have looked at crime among immigrants have concluded that noncitizens are less likely to engage in criminal activity. How Politics Took Over the Killing of Mollie Tibbetts 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Superposters tend to be “more opinionated, more extreme, more engaged, more everything,” said Andrew Guess, a Princeton University social scientist. Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Moreover, a lottery system would be a boon to social scientists, since it would approximate an experiment to determine the actual value-added of a particular school. Opinion | Enough fretting over college admissions. It’s time for a lottery. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Other studies by social scientists suggest that immigration leads to greater, not lower, productivity in the United States and somewhat lower prices for some goods and services. Plan to Punish Immigrants for Using Welfare Could Boost G.O.P. Candidates 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z But, in general, it’s hard to know what effect attribution studies are having, social scientists say. Droughts, heatwaves and floods: How to tell when climate change is to blame 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z To do this, and to help prepare a large city’s health system or a region’s agriculture for more turbulent weather, climate researchers must join forces with economists, social scientists and local specialists. Pinning extreme weather on climate change is now routine and reliable science 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z In the early 2000s, a few social scientists tried to confirm links between particular genes and schooling, but their efforts largely failed. Many Genes Play a Role in Educational Attainment, Enormous Genetic Study Finds 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In contrast to Benardo, my grandfather was not a social scientist. George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Some social scientists argue that this is, indeed, the way of things. As inequality grows, so does the political influence of the rich 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z To address these questions and evaluate the broader impact of training data and algorithms, machine-learning researchers must engage with social scientists, and experts in the humanities, gender, medicine, the environment and law. AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “It raises rather metaphysical questions for all social scientists: What happens when the phenomenon you’re studying affects the data you use to study it?” When Wives Earn More Than Husbands, Neither Partner Likes to Admit It 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z When social scientists write about life expectancy, educational attainment, nutrition, crime, and the other issues Pinker addresses, they often use the abbreviation Q.O.L., for “quality of life.” Are Things Getting Better or Worse? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z These findings stem from our work as social scientists who use data to understand the U.S. legal system and the decisions of judges. Perspective | Kavanaugh is radically conservative. Here’s the data to prove it. 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The disregard for honesty in the Trump era, with its ever-changing menu of “alternative facts,” is eliciting new research and polemics from philosophers, literary critics, political analysts and social scientists. Can truth survive this president? An honest investigation. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z One of the most frequently cited studies in this vein was conducted in 2004 by two social scientists. Every current Supreme Court justice attended Harvard or Yale. That’s a problem, say decision-making experts. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet, my research on public opinion about immigration, and that of other social scientists, shows that the American public is supportive of more welcoming immigration policies. Americans are not as conservative on immigration as you might think 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “What we really want is for them to amass the 10,000 hours to become an expert,” Garcés said, referring to a belief among some social scientists that it takes that long to master something. A Nightmare for Mexico’s Soccer Opponents: More Chuckys On the Way 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z I try to explain that and walk through the history, partly as a social scientist and partly as an actor in the story from time to time. Obama’s Russia expert on the “giant gap” between Trump’s policies and his friendship with... 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z In his book “The Difference,” social scientist Scott Page provides mathematical evidence that although diverse individuals are less trusting of one other, when working together, they are more productive. Why Our Brains See the World as "Us" Versus "Them" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z We are social scientists with interests in environmental health, environmental justice and inequality and democracy. Environmental Protection Agency staff claims Trump administration is changing their mission 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z One group that plays a strikingly large part in Igo’s account is social scientists. Review | How we balance our right to privacy with our collective need for information 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will oversee the same process for social scientists. China introduces sweeping reforms to crack down on academic misconduct 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Shannon McNeeley, a social scientist with Colorado State University, began to interview tribal members and farmers to get their sense of it. A Wyoming Reservation Shows the New Face of Drought 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z In post civil rights era America such racial authoritarianism often takes the form of what social scientists describe as "symbolic racism." The Philadelphia Eagles and “their President”: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It is always thrilling, if a little sad, when social scientists gather to solve the insoluble. Perspective | Are U.S. schools really such big losers in the world? 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z So will governments and social scientists around the world as they explore how to share the bounty of capitalism more broadly at a time of rising economic inequality. Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s a decline that is alarming demographers and social scientists — many of them men who chart womb activity like the consumer price index or manufactured-goods sales. Perspective | The child-free life: Why so many American women are deciding not to have kids 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The data showed that social scientists tend to assign less value to contributions such as proposing ideas or providing lab space than do researchers in the pure, applied and natural sciences. Who gets credit? Survey digs into the thorny question of authorship 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z I speak as a computer scientist, not as a social scientist or psychologist. Six reasons why social media is a Bummer 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Starbucks said the long-term program is being designed and developed with input from researchers, social scientists, employees and other advisers. Starbucks calls anti-bias training part of 'long-term journey' 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But sharing trends vary markedly across fields, with social scientists and mathematicians most likely to disclose findings before publication, and computer scientists least likely. Are you in a sharing field? Survey breaks down researcher openness by discipline 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z They often leave that to social scientists or economists. New Data: Hurricanes Will Get Worse 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Its supporters—including social scientists who are heavy users of the data—hailed prospects of a healthy budget increase for the constitutionally mandated exercise. More money, more worries: 2020 census plans continue to generate controversy 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Their aim was to galvanise 3.5% of the local population – the number that social scientists estimate is the tipping point for effecting social change. California burning: life among the wildfires 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Such quandaries might suggest that ethical issues should be left to other social scientists. Economists focus too little on what people really care about 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The trial of Bill Cosby provides what social scientists might call a natural experiment. The Cosby Verdict: Did the #MeToo Movement Sway the Jury? 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Every reasoning citizen, politician, social scientist, law enforcement professional, and anyone else who understands the symbolic importance of firearms in the U.S. knows this. Do Gun Owners Want Gun Control? Yes, Some Say, Post-Parkland 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The findings emphasis the need for thoughtful, informed mentoring of junior academics about applying, and persevering, with grant applications, says Kathryn Sutherland, a social scientist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Scientists’ early grant success fuels further funding 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z In short, step aside, humanists and social scientists, we’re taking over. On "Darwinism" 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Their work was commissioned by social scientists seeking to cut costs on large-sample surveys, but also by profit-minded companies that hired hundreds of Turkers as needed, instead of a full- or part-time employee. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Like many social scientists, Van Hook thinks that the current hyper-partisan debate over immigration could make the data from future surveys even less reliable. Trump officials claim they can avoid 2020 census problems caused by controversial citizenship question. Experts are very skeptical 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Some social scientists say the analysis is fundamentally flawed and reflects poorly on an organization that champions scientific rigor. Got data? Survey of 2017 March for Science doesn’t make the grade 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z In laboratory settings, there is evidence that consumers respond more favourably to marketing messages that reflect their personality, says Sandra Matz, a computational social scientist at the Columbia Business School in New York City. The scant science behind Cambridge Analytica’s controversial marketing techniques 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Jasanoff and Hurlbut invited three dozen social scientists, ethicists, religious thinkers, legal scholars, and others to another meeting, at Harvard in 2017, for what they say was “a different kind of conversation.” Interested in responsible gene editing? Join the (new) club 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Religiosity, as narrowly measured by social scientists, isn’t necessarily the most influential variable in explaining gun culture, but it’s certainly in the mix. Can America's worship of guns ever be changed? | Christopher Morrissey 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z In April 2017, we gathered three dozen social scientists, ethicists, religious thinkers, legal scholars, scientists and representatives of national and international ethics bodies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A global observatory for gene editing 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But social scientists who do surveys for a living say the data don’t pass the smell test. Got data? Survey of 2017 March for Science doesn’t make the grade 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z In 1983, a social scientist named David Chambers published a landmark study on children's drawings. Only 3 in 10 children asked to draw a scientist drew a woman. But that’s more than ever. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Just how effective all this spending has been in reducing crime is hotly debated among social scientists. COPS grants cut in Trump budget 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The company employs many in-house social scientists to conduct research on the psychology of its users. Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Two social scientists, Robert Brym of the University of Toronto and Rhonda Lenton of York University, are now embarking on a wide-ranging study that they hope will provide a more accurate picture. Understanding Canada’s Jews 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z In Orlando, for instance, Wahl is part of a newly launched effort to bring together engineers, oceanographers, economists, social scientists and other experts. Attack of the extreme floods 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z |
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