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 ...

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

What happens when a tech millionaire spends two decades trying to control how we behave online? For Millennials — it mostly worked. For Gen-X and Gen-Z? Not so much. They see the game. They’re not ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

Pick up the receiver. No coins needed. On the other end of the line: a stranger from a completely different generation, ready ...

Of all the evolutionary and cultural shifts in fatherhood, some of the most interesting social experiments have been conducted in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In a recent book chapter, Linda Haas and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Social experiments have been all the rage over the last few years from The Circle and Love Is Blind through to The Traitors. The latter, which airs on Peacock in the U.S., has led to a ...

This video features a social experiment designed to raise awareness about child safety and stranger danger. In a controlled ...

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve ...