Most explanations say discrimination is driven by differences between groups – but random individual differences may also play a role.
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Over the course of the pandemic, there’s been an increase in many aspects of social cohesion.
But this may be slipping as lockdowns drag on. Here’s how we measured social cohesion, and why.
The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) seeks to mitigate the social impacts of COVID-19.
Here are 10 trends worth noting from this year’s huge Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. For starters, household spending on energy fell, even as power prices rose.
Digital technology and its ability to process vast amounts of human-generated data can be a powerful tool for social science research.
If science wants to maintain funding it needs to be more socially relevant, but that will require reforming the metrics we use to judge its success.
First impressions may have more to do with your eyebrows, eye height or bone structure than anything you do or say. Researchers…
Louis Theroux knows how to entertain; but the lessons he teaches us have much greater import. The British journalist and broadcaster is back on TV – at least in the UK, for now – with his new series LA…
For researchers, social media is a veritable goldmine of opportunity. Every day, reams and reams of naturally occurring data are produced by users of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. At any given moment…
If you were to believe some reports in the mainstream media earlier this week, Australians are now more racist, alarmed by immigration and much more negative about asylum seekers arriving by boat. However…
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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Researcher, children and young people, National Centre for Social Research
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Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia
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Research Fellow, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Scientist, Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, ETH Zurich
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Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Sydney