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social sciencese 18 Jun 2013 | 09:10 pm
Social scientists have their own language, which occasionally can confuse English speakers who are unfamiliar with the secret meanings normal everyday words take on in Social Sciencese - and which at ...
recent research 9 Jun 2013 | 06:10 am
From Kevin Lewis' April picks: Want to be more effective on the soapbox? Be abstract with your followers and concrete with those who may be more skeptical. (Michella Menegatti and friend) For DC int...
recent research 3 Jun 2013 | 02:02 am
A selection of Kevin Lewis' March picks: Chimps' sense of fairness. (Darby Proctor and friends) One reason we act morally: it gets us trustworthiness points. (Brent Simpson and friends) Our GPA's a...
recent research 31 May 2013 | 01:33 am
From Kevin Lewis' February picks: Our ballots may be secret, but most Americans either don't believe it or don't care. (Alan Gerber and friends) A new explanation for variations in political partici...
recent research 24 May 2013 | 06:32 am
Kevin Lewis picks from January 2012: Remembering political events that never happened... especially if they fit your political predispositions. (Steven Frenda and friends) And conservatives and libe...
recent research 22 May 2013 | 06:00 pm
The Kevin Lewis trawl continues: Social exclusion "hurts" - but when the pain of exclusion is dulled (with a little electrical impulse) people don't mind so much being left out. (Paolo Riva and frien...
recent research 15 May 2013 | 10:21 pm
Another batch of Kevin Lewis picks: Voters are short-sighted, not because they're impatient but because they're uncertain about the future. (Alan M. Jacobs and friend) ... and they are more impresse...
Recent research 14 May 2013 | 11:12 pm
Still catching up with a year of Kevin Lewis posts: Researchers spend time in an Athens subway station and observe who punishes "norm violators." (Loukas Balafoutas and friend) The good and bad news...
recent research 13 May 2013 | 09:09 pm
Catching up on a year of Kevin Lewis picks (first year of grad school was a bit of a distraction): Humans don't always act the way economists and game theorists think they should - unless they're act...
recent research 13 May 2013 | 04:02 pm
Posting a "this week's picks" from Kevin Lewis' blog - which is actually from a week in September 2012: Groups behave more like Homo Economicus than do individual humans. (Gary Charness) A theory to...
