Social Sciences

This area deals with the latest developments in the field of empirical and theoretical research as it relates to the structure and function of institutes and systems, their social interdependence and how such systems interact with individual behavior processes.

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The transparent soccer player

Goals in soccer only provide limited information about a team’s performance and the quality of its players: Goals are scored only rarely in soccer, and can…

Illinois researchers researchers find tweeting in cities lower than expected

They identified that while there are less people tweeting, there are a group of people who tweet prolifically. This suggests there is a concentrated core of…

Polluted air may pollute our morality

“This research reveals that air pollution may have potential ethical costs that go beyond its well-known toll on health and the environment,” says behavioral…

Sibling differences: Later-borns choose less prestigious programs at university

First-borns are more likely to graduate from medical training and engineering programs at university, while later-borns are more likely to study journalism and…

Visual intelligence is not the same as IQ

That is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people's visual ability and that these…

Amazingly flexible: Learning to read in your thirties profoundly transforms the brain

Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of recycling…

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