social sciences

Justin C.M. Brown’s career change blends research and art with a unique look at Westwood’s campus.

UCLA study finds using “please” may not be so polite in everyday requests.

The UCLA researcher will explore why a mostly moderate public is represented by increasingly polarized elected officials.

McClure, a UCLA professor of political science, English and comparative literature, died Dec. 21, 2023.

A $9.4 million federal grant furthers the UCLA Agile Visual Analytics Lab’s goal of making information accessible and meaningful for all.

The awardees will study in Brazil, Chile, England, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia.

In its second year, the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate plans to fund new research teams and host a central research hub.

UCLA report finds nearly half of those surveyed think sex and romance are too prominent in film and TV.

Streisand personally kicked off the event with remarks about the current American landscape.

UCLA psychologists find people tend to remember vague assertions in more definitive terms.

Classes in the STEM fields should include context from history and other social sciences, UCLA researchers write.

UCLA sociologist Abigail Saguy found that LGBTQ+ and feminist activists support adding an “X” option on identification cards.

UCLA psychologists suggest that by 25, one’s mode of evaluating the truthfulness of information is pretty much set.

UCLA professors Jacob Foster and Danny Snelson weigh in on how artificial intelligence might influence and invigorate writing, art and culture.

An international team including UCLA sociologist Giovanni Rossi found that people rely on each other for help constantly.

Professors Heather Maynard, Harryette Mullen and Daniel Treisman are among the 270 inductees for 2023.

The honorees are Michael Berry, Scott Cummings, Prineha Narang, Alex Purves and Michael Rothberg.

UCLA social demographer Anne Pebley discusses her findings, including which sociodemographic traits tend to predict who gets deported.

Psychologist Patricia Greenfield will shed light on our cultural and behavioral reactions to the pandemic at her Faculty Research Lecture on Feb. 15.

The scholar, whose new works explore the history of the Holocaust in North Africa, will speak on campus Jan. 31.

UCLA’s new Initiative to Study Hate represents a critical effort to root out what’s causing the alarming rise in hate across the country — and what we can do to stop it.

UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute wanted to find out if kindness is contagious. The answer may surprise you.

Bucking previous findings, researchers found that people of East Asian and European descent performed similarly on a well-known test.

The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, gives awardees the opportunity to study aspects of a society or societies.

Patricia Turner discusses her new book, “Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century”