Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful ...

Simulation-based education (SBE) has revolutionized professional and technical training, yet its transformative potential within the social sciences remains ...

This post is co-written with James Pennebaker, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. Since the publication of the Facebook experiment in the highly ...

The Internet has already changed the way we live and work, but it has only started to change the way we conduct social science research. This seminar will provide students with an overview of the new ...

Igor Grossmann receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, The John Templeton Foundation, and the ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...