A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...

Often, it feels like humans are one bunch of totally unpredictable beings. So finding out the answers to questions about our behavior requires some serious measures. Would we go mad if we read too ...

What begins as a controlled social experiment quickly shifts into something far more intense. As participants react in real ...

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 ...

To study the effects of misinformation on attitudes, some social science experiments expose participants to false, misleading, or dangerous information. Most Institutional Review Boards require that ...