Social Sciences

Every Rosh Hashanah, annual reports are released focused on birth rates, the average number of children per family, and other population growth data. However, there’s another side to these statistics: experiences of involuntary childlessness, in […]

Law enforcement agencies across Canada are sounding the alarm over a rise in sexual extortion (“sextortion”) against young people.This article is brought to you by this site.

Roughly a quarter of adults in the U.S. are caring for elderly family members or children with an illness or disability—and sometimes both at the same time. Despite family caregiving consuming time and resources for […]

Science is advancing faster than ever—and so are its impacts on our lives around the world.This article is brought to you by this site.

As people embrace ChatGPT and other large language models, University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane says it’s easy for people to imbue AI with a human, or even god-like, authority.This article is brought to you […]

A study comparing evacuation patterns in response to two 2024 hurricanes, Milton and Helene, found that people in coastal areas with frequent hurricane exposure were much more likely to travel out of harm’s way compared […]

Empathy is not just a “nice-to-have” soft skill—it is a foundation of how children and adults regulate emotions, build friendships and learn from one another.This article is brought to you by this site.

At a Bristol social club, a psychic medium scans the room, inviting the spirit world into a space more often used for drinking and darts. The medium is talking to a small audience, mostly women.This […]

Personal pronouns like “I” and “you” are among the most common words in the English language—but that doesn’t mean they occur equally often in all kinds of texts. “If you think about it, you wouldn’t […]

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: “Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought and endeavor, discover some […]