Most people have heard the famous phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Now, Northwestern University researchers have used statistical physics to confirm the theory that underlies this famous ...

At a time when politics and science are at odds with the truth, conspiracy theories are on the rise and misinformation is rampant, Rutgers researchers say facts do matter and explain why beliefs are ...

Social Sciences are still in a pre-Copernican stage of development," Clyde C. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, told a Littauer Auditorium meeting of the Students' Association of Natural and ...

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 ...

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 7, Status: What It Is and Why It Matters for Inequality (NOVEMBER 2022), pp. 70-88 (19 pages) Status is an independent ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Conspiracy theory beliefs and (more generally) misinformation may be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Social Science Quarterly was founded as the Southwestern Political Science Quarterly in 1920. It was the first social science ...