Social Science

The way science is judged has become as consequential as the science itself, and two recent books examined in a...

Across the world's classrooms, the dominant response to adolescent digital distraction has been the ban: smartphones locked away, social media...

In classrooms across Israel's Negev region, a quiet transformation is taking place. Arab-Bedouin children, many of whom arrive at school...

The world's most widely used measure of childhood adversity may be telling scientists only half the story. A new study...

Parenting questionnaires are the workhorses of child psychology research, used everywhere from family intervention trials to school-based mental health screening....

In a region where the label attached to a person's identity can determine whether they receive healthcare, inherit property, or...

In the rolling farmlands of Chile, a woman may rise before dawn to tend livestock, care for an elderly parent,...

In the picturesque Portuguese municipality of Sintra, famous for its romantic palaces and the forested peaks of the Serra de...

Constitutional carry laws, which permit civilians to carry firearms openly or concealed without permits, background checks, or licenses, have now...

The explosion of development statistics in the past two decades has produced an unexpected paradox: the more that governments are...