Where is leading social science research being conducted in the U.S.? Which universities lead the way in fields such as anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology? One key ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

The Tuesday after spring break, students from Purdue University’s Computational Social Science Lab eagerly gathered in the Joe and Maggie Kernan Social Science Research Lab on Beering Hall’s second ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

The availability of big data has created opportunities to study human behavior at unprecedented scale and detail. Parallel developments in artificial intelligence, network science, and complex systems ...

Researchers look at how AI (large language models or LLMs in particular) could change the nature of social science research. In an article published yesterday in the journal Science, leading ...

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 ...

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute ...