Often, it feels like humans are one bunch of totally unpredictable beings. So finding out the answers to questions about our behavior requires some serious measures. Would we go mad if we read too ...

As the federal government shutdown threw Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits into uncertainty, leaving millions of Americans unsure how they would feed their children, a Kentucky ...

This video features a prank-style social experiment where a food order at a drive-thru is delivered by singing while playing a guitar. The experiment captures how staff react when a routine ...

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve ...

Remember how the whole Internet was outraged over Facebook’s social experiments earlier this year? Well, now the social network hasannounced that it’s changing the way its experiments will be run in ...

Of all the evolutionary and cultural shifts in fatherhood, some of the most interesting social experiments have been conducted in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In a recent book chapter, Linda Haas and ...