Society

In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three “narcissistic insults” that had been caused by science. These were moments of scientific breakthrough that showed humans that we are not as special as we once believed.This article is […]

Almost three decades ago, the chert mining area in Krumlov Forest was discovered. Since then, much has been written about the mining activity that took place here. While chert mining occurred here from as early […]

A year ago, French newspaper Le Monde and Radio France broke a scandal in big water—Perrier was filtering its product. The filtering began due to worries about water contamination linked to climate change and pollution […]

A research team led by Professor Hitoshi Yamamoto (Rissho University, Japan) has developed a new model that integrates direct and indirect reciprocity, the two core mechanisms underpinning human cooperation. Unlike previous models that treat these […]

A research team led by Hitoshi Yamamoto has unveiled new insights into how humans build and update reputations in cooperative social interactions. Human societies have achieved remarkable levels of cooperation, facilitated mainly by mechanisms of […]

Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and about to radically reshape the future in many ways.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from public health to […]

Research by Royal Holloway has found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small “events,” compared to more isolated people who see their world as one-long stretch.This article is brought […]

Social norms and behavioral rules, even when outdated, are often resistant to change, but a paper by two University at Buffalo philosophers argues that lasting shifts might be achieved by redirecting the effort to change […]

Letting raw emotion drive financial decisions sounds like a recipe for disaster. But Jennifer Lerner, the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Decision Science, and Management at the Kennedy School, found that anger turned […]