History Meets Social Science

Dynamic Semantics Meets Cognitive and Social Science

Robot Science Meets Social Science: An Embodied Computational Model of Social Referencing

Social referencing is the tendency to use the emotional reaction of another to help form one's own affective appraisal of a novel situation, which is then used to guide subsequent behavior. It is an important form of emotional communication and is a developmental milestone for human infants in their ability to learn about their environment through social means. In this paper, we present a biolo...

Computer Science Meets Medical Science

In the past 20–30 years at least two technical advances have made quantification in pathology at a large scale possible. At the time the computing power of affordable computers increased, interest to deploy tasks emerged that were previously very laborious to perform. Combined with digital camera systems, many new possibilities became available. Examples of such measurements that were previousl...

6164 Social Science History 24:3

Key features of reproductive behavior in China vary systematically through space and time. In this article we present an analysis of fertility change in regional space, using a 1% household sample from China’s 1990 population census. Elsewhere, we use the same data to analyze reproductive strategizing, but here we pursue the big picture with a straightforward analysis that takes reported births...

Science and social responsibility: a case history.

The only way I can approach this problem is at the personal level. I used to think that one could avoid involvement in the antisocial consequences of science simply by not working on any project that might be turned to evil or destructive ends. I have learned that things are not all that simple, and that almost any scientific finding can be perverted or twisted under appropriate societal pressu...