Social Sciences

Parents frequently lie to their children. “No, you can’t have any chocolate—it’s all gone,” when there’s a jumbo bar of Dairy Milk in the cupboard. “No, you can’t have my phone to watch YouTube—the battery’s […]

The bottled water market has seen explosive growth—up 73% over the last decade—making it one of the fastest-growing industries globally. However, this growth comes at a significant environmental cost. Plastic waste, greenhouse gas emissions from […]

In a book I wrote with a colleague on organizational failures (The Apology Impulse) the inability of many of them to confront their failures, except to say a meaningless “we’re sorry,” is legend.This article is […]

A multi-country study has linked internet use to a reduction in depressive symptoms. City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong researchers found a positive association among adults 50 years and older […]

People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. People from […]

From climate change to geopolitical instability to health emergencies, we are entering a period of momentous change. The technology industry likes to tell us that the antidote is artificial intelligence (AI).This article is brought to […]

Everyone knows that climate change has consequences, such as a higher likelihood of severe floods, hurricanes and droughts. But here’s a lesser-known problem: Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more […]

Generation Z is focused primarily on safety, followed by kindness, self-acceptance and having fun, according to a recent survey of 10- to 24-year-olds by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA.This article is brought […]

Studies of intimate partner violence mostly portray men as abusers and women as victims. Little academic attention is paid to men who are abused by their female partners. Even less effort is made to understand […]

Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery, according to a new report from researchers at UCL and the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Center, which measures […]