Social Sciences

Whether they’re knocking at your door trick or treating, or hung as decorations in shop windows, witches are rife at this time of year. They’re easy to recognize, wearing tall, pointed hats, carrying broomsticks, or […]

Young teenagers on TikTok can easily access hardcore porn content, a new study has found.This article is brought to you by this site.

Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation located in rural North Carolina, […]

Despite how natural friendship can feel, people rarely stop to analyze it. How do you know when someone will make a good friend? When is it time to move on from a friendship? Oftentimes, people […]

We tend to assume scam victims simply “believed the unbelievable.” However, my research published in Social Epistemology suggests something more subtle: Many people don’t fully believe the story. Instead, they bet on a fantasy—one that […]

In a speech to the United Nations Security Council last month, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, took aim at artificial intelligence (AI).This article is brought to you by this site.

When the news broke in the autumn of 2023 that the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, were closing, the headlines were laced with emotion: “devastating,” “fear,” “end of an era.” […]

Many survey-based studies have been conducted to try to understand how happiness changes over a person’s lifetime. While there have been a few different outcomes, the most common has been the U-shaped curve. This pattern […]

Shows about men still dominate our television screens. But the stories being told are starting to change, with more room for vulnerability and portrayals of male mental illness. These changes include explicit mentions of diagnostic […]

“In a sense, you listen to every person with different ears, because everyone speaks differently,” says Orhun Uluşahin, who will defend his dissertation at Radboud University on October 17. His research shows that our brains […]