The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most
important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of …

Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across
sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem …

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

Crowdsourcing has had a dramatic impact on the speed and scale at which scientific
research can be conducted. Clinical scientists have particularly benefited from readily …

The science of science (SOS) is a rapidly develo** field which aims to understand,
quantify and predict scientific research and the resulting outcomes. The problem is …

Network science provides a set of quantitative methods to investigate complex systems,
including human cognition. Although cognitive theories in different domains are strongly …

Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor market created by Amazon, has recently become
popular among social scientists as a source of survey and experimental data. The workers …

With the prevalence of AI assistance in decision making, a more relevant question to ask
than the classical question of “are two heads better than one?''is how groups' behavior and …

We leveraged exogenous variation in weather patterns across geographies to identify social
contagion in exercise behaviours across a global social network. We estimated these …

Nowadays, we are witnessing the exponential growth of Generative AI (GenAI), a group of AI
models designed to produce new content. This technology is poised to revolutionize …