social science
Your Friends Will Hate You If You Use AI to Write Texts, Science Confirms
A new study says what should be obvious: people lose faith in relationships when their friends take shortcuts, AI-assisted or otherwise.
Ubiquitous Surveillance Cameras Are Changing Our Understanding of Human Behavior
Surveillance footage is providing new insights into how humans interact in public. But should scientists be able to see it?
Watch Scientists Express Their Research in Interpretive Dances
Dancers performed as electrons, brain processes, and teaching tools.
Want Young People to Vote? Maybe Throw Them a Literal Party
Could voting "festivals" encourage normally apathetic millennials to come to the polls during local elections?
Two Dudes Wrote a Fake Penis Study and Got It Published to Slam Gender Research
It goes on to state that if we shift our societal understanding of the penis, we could better combat climate change.
Does the Behavioral Immune System Explain Xenophobia?
In a new study, political scientists are political scientists.
Does Racial Resentment Fuel Opposition to Paying College Athletes?
A new social science study has found that whites are more likely than blacks to oppose paying NCAA athletes—and that the more negative whites felt about blacks, the stronger their opposition.
How to Get People to Give a Shit About Climate Change
“Excuse me, do you have a moment for saving the Earth?”
We Don't Trust People with a Bitchy Resting Face, Science Shows
But a "trustworthy face" can be faked.
Intelligent People Are Just As Racist As the Rest of the Big Stupid World
But they still like to talk a whole bunch about equality, a new study finds.