On February 25-26, 2010, a group of behavioral and social scientists met to explore the feasibility of developing well-grounded common metrics to advance behavioral and social science research. With ...

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 ...

America needs better strategists. And if that wasn’t clear enough from the past two decades of U.S. strategy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s new vision and guidance statement for professional military ...

Theories matter because they affect behavior and can, under certain circumstances, become self-fulfilling. For a theory to become self-fulfilling, people must be aware of the theory and have the ...

What feels right is often wrong. Common sense offers comfort by simplifying the world into intuitive, familiar terms, but it often masks deeply ingrained cultural, class and gender biases. These ...