Social scientists say societal impact is the ultimate goal, finds global survey

A new white paper from Sage Publications reveals a gap between the aspirations for societal impact of social and behavioral ...
Psychology Today

Why Life Feels Rigged Against You (But Isn't)

The real injustice, in our minds, is that we lacked a voice or agency in how the events unfolded. That’s why even the fairest ...
Mother Jones

It’s One of the Most Influential Social Psychology Studies Ever. Was It All a Lie?

A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
Scientific Research Publishing

Fredrickson, B. L. (2013). Positive Emotions Broaden and Build. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (pp. 1-53). Elsevier.

ABSTRACT: Attractiveness is considered important in the formation of intimate relationships. Previous studies found that the characteristics of the partners and occasionally elicited emotions could ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Simkus, J. (2023). Convenience Sampling: Definition, Method, and Examples. Simply Psychology.

ABSTRACT: Since its independence, Zimbabwe has developed various education systems that address various post-colonial questions. Still, these education systems have been disputed due to their ...
The Atlantic

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...
STAT

Building trust is about much more than sharing information

It’s a strange reality when more people recognize you from your videos on social media than from your peer-reviewed papers or “professional” work. During grad school, I could never have predicted that ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

Funding the U.S. Scientific Training Ecosystem: New Data, Methods, and Evidence

Using newly-collected data on the near-population of U.S. STEM PhD graduates since 1950, we examine who funds PhD training, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, ...
IEEE

Machine Learning and Data Science in Social Sciences: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming social science research by enabling scalable data analysis, predictive modeling, and causal inference, thereby reshaping the methodological ...
IEEE

RUP-GAN: A Black-Box Attack Method for Social Intelligence Recommendation Systems Based on Adversarial Learning

Abstract: Cyber Physical Social Intelligence (CPSI) emphasizes the integration of social information and artificial system information from virtual spaces, enabling Social Intelligence Recommendation ...