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 ...

What would happen if 10 children were left unsupervised in a house for five days? Would they react the same or differently? Thanks to a certain social experiment in the United Kingdom, we may have the ...

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 ...

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.