Social Science Space

Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus has been a leading scholar in understanding how culture and psychology interact, a research portfolio that saw her receive the 2026 Sage-CASBS Award last month at the Cent...

Historian Rana Mitter OBE FBA, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at The Harvard Kennedy School, will address ‘China, the US and Europe in the era of Xi and Trump’ for Britain’s Academy of Social Science’s 2026 Annual Lecture.

The technological competition between China, the US and EU will shape global economics and security for decades to come, yet ...

The human brain works very hard behind the scenes even in the most mundane aspects of daily life, like enjoying a nice day or determining the meaning of chit-chat with a friend. Ferreting out the basis and structures of our brain’s labor is the domain of Daniel Yon, a psychologist ...

Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool Claude, claimed in March 2026 that it used an AI interviewer to conduct “the largest and most multilingual qualitative study” ever done. The AI tool collected responses from nearly 81,000 people about their visions fo...

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to supporting financial forecasts. A similar shift is now unfolding inside research laboratories.

There is currently a boom in national initiatives to accelerate the integration of AI into science. These include the