Researchers are warning that millions of people around the world aren't being counted in census and survey data, leaving policymakers in the dark about the populations they govern.
Political science
Jun 19, 2025
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Can artificial delegates—autonomous agents that make decisions on our behalf—help us reach better outcomes in situations where collective failure looms, such as climate change policymaking or the urgent response required ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2025
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New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and the MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in which posts get flagged as ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2025
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ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since. Because perceptions of a new technology like AI can help ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2025
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A new global study shows that people in societies characterized by corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence are more likely to develop aversive, "dark" personality characteristics such as selfishness or spitefulness.
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2025
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Walter Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" as he delivered the news on CBS in the 1960s and '70s—a time when fewer news options created a "shared reality" that scholars argue fostered civic engagement, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2025
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Algorithmically-driven social media has split red and blue America into separate information environments. But a new online tool, developed at Harvard, can bring citizens back together.
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2025
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In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to the best possible life—a ...
Social Sciences
May 28, 2025
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As the national debate intensifies around immigration, a new study from the University of California School of Global Policy and Strategy is challenging conventional wisdom about "brain drain"—the idea that when skilled workers ...
Economics & Business
May 22, 2025
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A new study from the Rady School of Management reveals that public exposure to reports of Congressional stock trading significantly reduces Americans' trust in Congress and their willingness to comply with the law—regardless ...
Economics & Business
May 21, 2025
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