Social workers apply a diverse range of theories that examine social, cultural, political, ecological and psychological aspects of human behavior to their everyday work in helping people. Yet, when receiving their professional ...
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2019
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A research team led by scientists at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) reports that fashion cycles in music are driven by outsider groups. Outsiders challenge the dominant music style by strongly contrasting the preferences ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2019
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While fighting over females is common among male animals in the wild, these fights rarely result in death. You can't pass on your genes when you're dead or badly injured. So why do the males in some colonies of the tiny spider ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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Part of what makes terrorists so frightening is their penchant for unpredictable, indiscriminate violence. One day they could attack a global financial center. And the next they could hit a neighborhood bike path.
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2019
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The results of the U.S. presidential election in 2016 created a unique opportunity for a team of UCLA researchers.
Political science
Dec 18, 2018
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Ten years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers: this unprecedented event remains today a topic of the greatest concern. Indeed, regulation theory teaches us that the major financial crises – those of 1929 and ...
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2018
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Indirect reciprocity is a model of how humans act when their reputation is at stake, and which social norms people use to evaluate the actions of others. Researchers seek to know which social norms lead to cooperation in ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2018
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Usually, researchers study the effect communications have on the target of a message, says Alcides Velasquez, University of Kansas assistant professor of communication studies. But in the case of a new study on social media ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Researchers investigating the use of Twitter to propagate or debunk conspiracy theories related to the 2015-2016 Zika virus outbreak analyzed the content of more than 25,000 Tweets and the characteristics of the social networks ...
Internet
Sep 11, 2018
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Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology's brightest minds should have seen that coming.
Internet
Aug 10, 2018
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