Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project”: that’s the headline from reports on the latest ...

The researchers' integrative approach addresses this by making integration a design concern from the start. Rather than testing only one hypothesis in one setting, researchers explicitly construct a ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

To study the effects of misinformation on attitudes, some social science experiments expose participants to false, misleading, or dangerous information. Most Institutional Review Boards require that ...

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 ...

LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users for five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according to a ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...