A study led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has determined that the size and composition of our social support ...

Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been ...

A new school year is upon us. Bullying will continue to be a problem for kids, despite anti-bullying laws. And schools will continue to have science fairs with students presenting their experiments. I ...

A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer, a business reporter ...

How one professor uses online games as petri dishes of human behavior Edward Castronova has been a wizard, a clergyman, and lately, a monster-slaying blonde, all inside virtual worlds. Scholars may ...

A new film revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment in which volunteer subjects were asked to administer electrical shocks to other... 'Experimenter' Revisits A Decades-Old Trial Of ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Source: New York Post/Fair ...