Social Science Exchanges with China

Social science. Computational social science.

Experimenting with Politics SOCIAL SCIENCE

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The science in social science.

A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering--life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include po...

Democratizing Data Science Effecting positive social change with data science

The effective translation of data into novel insights, discoveries, and solutions, also known as data science, has enormous potential to bring about positive social change. In this paper, we propose ways to “democratize data science”: that is, to allocate the power of data science to society’s greatest needs. Two underlying challenges are 1) the misalignment of economic incentives to aspiring d...

Social exchanges and subjective well-being: do sources of positive and negative exchanges matter?

OBJECTIVES To decompose the effects of positive and negative social exchanges on well-being in terms of relationship type (vertically extended family, horizontally extended family, or nonfamily) and subjective closeness (close vs. peripheral). METHODS One thousand and five Chinese older adults rated each network member on positive and negative exchanges, which were aggregated for each relatio...