Living cooperatively in a culturally diverse world is one of the great challenges of our time. This issue has become especially salient in the United States as record numbers of immigrants are ...

The Social Lab is a 10,000 square feet experiential space at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, Calif. The Social Lab aims to help visitors better understand and overcome the inherent prejudices ...

For the past 15 years or so, Gallup has charted how Americans describe themselves when it comes to social and economic issues. Even among Republicans, social liberalism is ascendant, with ...

In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful ...

Is there a relationship between societal tolerance and economic growth? In his book “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth,” Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman gives a number of examples over the ...

Discussions about the evolution of human social cognition usually portray the social environment of early hominins as highly hierarchical and violent. In this evolutionary narrative, our propensity ...

The research team, led by Durham University’s Department of Anthropology, studied two groups of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. The researchers installed a ...

Reason-Rupe has a new survey and report out on millennials—find the report here. Millennials aren't liberals; they are social liberals and fiscal centrists. And it's largely social issues driving the ...