The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

Learn about the difference between physical science and social science, including definitions, examples, and key characteristics to understand how these fields study is different for students and ...

The Internet has already changed the way we live and work, but it has only started to change the way we conduct social science research. This seminar will provide students with an overview of the new ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --LinkedIn ran secret social experiments on around 20 million of the site's users in a sweeping five-year study on the strength of social ties in professional networking, according to ...

Their findings, published in Nature Human Behavior, suggest that LLMs do in fact simulate altruism in specific social experiments, offering a possible explanation for this. "My paper with Nick ...

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 ...

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 ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

Often, it feels like humans are one bunch of totally unpredictable beings. So finding out the answers to questions about our behavior requires some serious measures. Would we go mad if we read too ...