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, ...

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 ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

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 ...

Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...

Are you interested in graduate school or finding a job in introductory research? The Undergraduate Certificate in Social Science Research Methods is designed to provide you with a foundation in social ...

Have you ever wondered about the world around you? Like, why the sky is blue, or why people act the way they do? There are two big ways we try to understand these things: through physical science and ...