To find out if we discriminate against people with foreign-sounding names an experiment with fictional girls who wanted to play soccer yields some answers. Sports are a way in for people who want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new school year is upon us. Bullying will continue to be a problem for kids, despite anti-bullying laws. And schools will continue to have science fairs with students presenting their experiments. I ...

For some time I’ve been trying to figure out how best to express my annoyance—is annoyance the right word? I think it is—at the ever-growing group of books that seek to use social science research to ...

A Houston-based anti-poverty program called Uplift Harris — announced last summer and set to launch this month — was conceived as a limited social science experiment to shed light on that question.