Social Science Bites – Social Science Space

One of the promises of artificial intelligence is that it will mimic, and perhaps even improve, on human thinking. One of those […]

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice […]

Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […]

Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […]

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […]

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it’s so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains […]

A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that — at least in […]

In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles […]

What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what […]

As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […]