Previous studies have shown people can identify the gender and race of a speaker based on the words chosen, but could a person identify something like political membership? A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ...
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2021
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The world is underestimating the economic effects of climate change by trillions of dollars, according to a new study co-authored by scientists from the University of Warwick.
Environment
Oct 6, 2020
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In recent years, criticism has been levelled at economics for being insular and unconcerned about real-world problems. But a new study led by MIT scholars finds the field increasingly overlaps with the work of other disciplines, ...
Economics & Business
Mar 3, 2020
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New research suggests that, when two people must work together on a physical task despite conflicting goals, the amount of information available about each other's actions influences how quickly and optimally they learn to ...
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2019
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It may not be just location, location, location that influences where people move to in the United States, but also politics, politics, politics, according to a team of researchers.
Political science
Nov 27, 2019
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If you're getting your news from a smartphone, size matters.
Social Sciences
Jul 8, 2019
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It has been a well-worn postmortem of the 2016 presidential election: the white working class, having faced job losses and stagnant wages under President Obama, voted with their pocketbooks when they chose Donald Trump.
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2018
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Voters in modern democracies, such as the United States and Germany, have long held the power to take from the rich, give to the poor and erase the huge economic inequalities that separate the vast majority of a nation's ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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Our fractured political climate in the United States might be made worse by how we approach difficult problems, researchers say in the journal Science.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2017
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Even nations can have friends of friends, a new study has found.
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2017
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