Tag: Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences

  • Campus & Community

    Evolving ideas

    Is the problem with evolution A) people don’t believe in it; B) people believe in it but don’t understand it; or C) evolution comes packaged with troubling implications that we…

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Getting to fear you

    Researchers showed some 20 young black and white women and men pictures of a snake and a spider, followed by pictures of a bird and a butterfly. Humans, apes, and…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Changing behavior: Easier than we thought?

    At a Harvard-convened social science research conference on Nov. 14, 2003, research from the fields of economics, social psychology, and public health showed how psychological changes could affect sexual health,…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Brain shows unconscious prejudices

    A brain area involved with fear flashes more actively when white college students are exposed to subliminal views of black versus white faces. The students didn’t actually “see” the faces,…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Cooking up a story of apes and humans

    For humans, cooking played a major role in the development of smaller jaws and teeth, bigger brains, smaller guts, shorter arms, and longer legs, according to Richard Wrangham, professor of…

    1–2 minutes