Social Science

MIT Predicts That Society Will Collapse in 1972: Updated, Economic Devastation of Century on Schedule

Medicine & Technology Jul 19, 2021

MIT's World3 Model predicts that our society will collapse some time in the 21st century. A new update about the prediction shows that we are right on schedule.

Rituals May Have Started To Avoid Diseases and Keep People Safe

Jan 12, 2021

The origins of many rituals may have come from a murky past, but researchers believe that these social practices evolved to help people avoid diseases and danger.

The World Is Designed for Men—but Smart Energy Systems Don't Have To Be

Sep 23, 2020

Air-conditioned offices often take average male body temperatures as the reference point, PPE sizes are based on male body sizes and characteristics. The tech sector continues to be a male-dominated field producing innovation and design that can reinforce gender stereotypes, or ignore the needs of women completely.

Genetic Composition of Social Environment Influences Behavior Among Zebrafish

Sep 23, 2020

A team of researchers studied the role of oxytocin and social environment in the social behavior using zebrafish as a model organism.

Spokane Psychologists Say A-Okay, But What the Senate Say About CIA’s Interrogation Techniques?

Dec 12, 2014

Allegedly created by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States in collaboration with psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen from Spokane, the “enhanced interrogation techniques” sought out employ an interrogation approach coined by the psychologists, known as “learned helplessness”. Aside from severe physical harm and abuse, which detainees experience in collaboration with other intensely physical torturous methods, this “learned helplessness” predicted that detainees would become passive and depressed when faced with an inevitable and unforeseeable chain of events that they could neither predict nor control.