Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

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.

The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

The new effort will bring together a broad range of voices to create scholarship and policy recommendations for reorienting ...

Applications of social science theory and concepts are central to today’s public life, from social networks to employee trainings to voting reforms. Social science methods using big data and ...

Social science students at Case Western Reserve engage with significant academic resources and research opportunities, leading to fulfilling careers and top graduate school placements. Studying the ...

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has forced science advisory institutions and processes into an unusually prominent role, and placed their decisions under intense public, political and media scrutiny. In ...

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 ...

Brie Tripp leads NPB 110C, a class that blends physiology lessons with examples of health disparities in underserved populations. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Rather than petri dishes or microscopes, ...

Successful replication of findings doesn't necessarily mean those findings are right and failure to replicate doesn't ...

The purpose of the social science requirement is to provide students with social scientific perspectives on human, social and institutional behavior. The social sciences provide a unique perspective ...