Research Highlights
Article
Published August 4, 2014
Playing with Kids Pays Off Economically
A groundbreaking study by UC Berkeley researchers shows that playing with children has a profound impact on their future incomes.
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Published August 1, 2014
Phonological Phenomenon
A recent Social Science Matrix brought together linguists and other researchers to explore "agreement by correspondence," or ABC.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
Lie Detector
Recent research by a psychologist at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business suggests that our unconscious mind can detect lies.
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Published August 1, 2014
Reconstructing Disaster
UC Berkeley graduate student Siri Colom researches how politics shaped the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
If Then What?
A Social Science Matrix seminar is examining the creeping presence of algorithms in modern society.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
Seeking New Models for Clinical Medicine
A new Social Science Matrix seminar is focused on finding radical new approaches to clinical health care.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
Waging War on Inequality
Minimum wage increases in cities have significant benefits and fewer costs than expected, according to a team of UC Berkeley economists.
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Article
Published July 29, 2014
Arroyos and Socionatures
A UC Berkeley geographer explores a mystery to better understand the relationship between human-caused and natural phenomena.
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Article
Published July 29, 2014
When Companies Manage Cities
UC Berkeley political scientist Alison Post’s new book explores the consequences of privatizing urban infrastructure.
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Article
Published July 29, 2014
Social Networks from History
A new tool developed by a team at UC Berkeley can help build “prosopographies,” social networks based on names, affiliations, and other historical data.
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Article
Published July 22, 2014
Do You Trust the Police?
A team of UC Berkeley researchers are helping devise new methods for measuring levels of trust between local communities and the police.
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