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Tom Gilovich finds it fun to study the whys and wherefores of how human beings make sense of the information delivered by […] The post Tom Gilovich On the Spotlight Effect appeared first on Social Science Space.

Every guest on the Social Science Bites podcast is queried about their area of expertise, and hence the questions tend to differ […] The post Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 6: A Social Science Bites Retrospective appeared first on Social Science Space.

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […] The post Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap appeared first on Social Science Space.

There is a value to shared knowledge that tends to go unrecognized because it’s so ubiquitous. Nonetheless, experimental psychologist Steven Pinker explains […] The post Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge appeared first on Social Science Space.

A key insight social anthropologist Mukulika Banerjee had while observing electoral behavior in a Bengali village was that — at least in […] The post Mukulika Banerjee on Indian Democracy appeared first on Social Science Space.

In 2016 psychologist Paul Bloom wrote a book titled Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (a naming decision he still wrestles […] The post Paul Bloom on Empathy appeared first on Social Science Space.

What does your accent – and yes, every speaker has one – say about you? Or perhaps the better question is, what […] The post Devyani Sharma on Accents appeared first on Social Science Space.

As a practical matter, how much effort do you put into pinning down the causes behind daily occurrences? To developmental psychologist Frank […] The post Frank Keil on Causal Thinking appeared first on Social Science Space.

Having been raised in Los Angeles, a place with vast swathes of single-family homes connected by freeways, arriving in Costa Rica was […] The post Setha Low on Public Spaces appeared first on Social Science Space.

As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material […] The post Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit appeared first on Social Science Space.

Let’s say you were asked to name the greatest health risks facing the planet. Priceton University economist Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director […] The post Ramanan Laxminarayan on Antibiotic Use appeared first on Social Science Space.