Social Sciences

The environment shapes stereotypes and biases, but it is possible to recognize and change them

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Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, and its development follows a clear pattern

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like those over the conflict in Gaza, and makes them grow

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring better, smarter decision-making to the masses

Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.

For some parents, bed-sharing is the only way their baby can sleep. Rather than talking to parents about how to do it safely, we try to pretend it doesn’t exist

Almost half of the world population heads to elections in 2024. To counter disinformation activities aimed against the voters on social media, we must first understand how they work

In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day

How “heart-centered” archaeology is helping to find the Indigenous children who never came home from residential schools

Fossils and stone tools show that a cave in Saudi Arabia has been used as shelter by humans for millennia, up to the present day

The tale of how the "backfire effect" ultimately, itself, backfired, and what scientists can learn from being wrong