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The article focuses on the lack of political attention and societal discourse regarding homelessness, highlighting the need for increased efforts, empathy, and resources to address the issue, as well as emphasizing the importance of recognizing the humanity, and dreams of homeless individuals.

The author offers observation on the film "Mean Girls" and the concept of girls' relational aggression.

The article focuses on Gianluca Grimalda, a social scientist, who was fired from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany for refusing to take transcontinental flights due to his environmental concerns, even though it led to a 35-day journey back from Papua New Guinea. It delves into the consequences of his decision on his career, his moral commitment to eco-friendly travel, and the challenges of maintaining a sustainable approach in academic research.

Profiles economist Brian Mulroney. Career history; Achievements; Educational background.

The article discusses about the revised rules announced by the U.S. Officefor Human Research Protections of the Department of Health and Human Services of the social scientists research in the human behavior, and perception, where the scrutiny worries the sociologists, and psychologists.

The author reports on his discussions with author and political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, who is also head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Denmark, an agency that uses economists to tackle world issues such as disease, safe water, and malnutrition. Lomborg feels that there are many low cost solutions to limit global warming that would have a greater effect than the expensive solutions proposed by the Kyoto Protocol. He would rather resources be used to fight problems associated with poverty.

The article reports that researchers at the University of Oregon have measured the brain's response to altruism, whether intended or not. A psychologist and two economists designed a study for nineteen college women and found that their brain responded positively if they gave money to charity, even if the decision was not theirs. Some previous theories about altruism are also discussed.

The article talks about the psychological and behavioral cues that people have that helps them define threats within societies or social groups. After Seung-Hi Cho became a rampage killer, the comments of his classmates and teachers implied that certain social skills were at work. The author reports on research done by biologists, psychologists, and sociologists.

The article discusses a study of corporate acquisitions done by economists at the University of Pittsburgh and Ohio State University. Researchers found that publicly held companies paid significantly more money to buy companies than privately held companies. In the long term, this hurts the companies purchased because they have to make up more financial ground to turn a profit.

This article discusses the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The article speculates that New Orleans' future population may not come close to reaching the levels it was at prior to Hurricane Katrina, and many economists and demographers feel that the city's future population will top out at roughly half of its pre-hurricane population.

The author discusses developments in the field of economics after attending the 2006 annual conference in Chicago. The author notes that younger economists are studying a wide range of non-business issues with an economists eye. For example, Emily Oster did a study of why certain areas of Africa have high HIV/AIDS rates compared to other areas, and she proposed that the solution would be to fight poverty within the continent.

Focuses on what is probably the Reverend Billy Graham's final crusade. Graham's plan to preach in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York; View of many pastors and academics that Graham comes to a drastically changed city; New York's growing population of evangelical Christians; Signs of change throughout the city; How New York pastors urged Graham to come; Why defining an evangelical can be problematic; Comments of sociologists; Reference to Graham's visit to New York in 1957, which catapulted him to national prominence; Overview of churches in New York; Discussion of the emergence of evangelical faith in the city.

Profiles Devah Pager, a young sociologist from Honolulu, Hawaii. Academic background; Achievements of Pager as a sociologist; Interest of Pager on prison studies.

The article discusses the efforts of social scientists to predict genocide by relying on computing techniques including the mathematical model developed by Australian researchers, a software developed by a Duke University laboratory, and hate speech on Twitter derived by a Holocaust Museum's team.

The author discusses the story of American social scientist and president of a think tank group Arthur Brooks who defended capitalism in the U.S. on moral terms as he claims it can make some people rich and have overly small-business focus.

An obituary for Suzanne Bianchi, a social scientist who explored the changing landscape of late-20th-century American families by tracing the impact of divorce, gender gap and women's careers on parents their children and households, is presented.

The author discusses the benefits and potential gains in involving social and behavioral scientist in designing public policies for the 30-million-word gap, domestic violence, and health compliance.

The article provides insights concerning violence as wells as gun control in the U.S., exploring why mass shootings tend to occur in rural areas and small towns, not urban centers. Social scientists note that social isolation and alienation can be experienced more intensely in smaller communities. The regulation all kinds of consumer products for their safety is discussed.

The author reflects on the literally-based teachings of the bible by theologians. He states that anthropology offers insights on why scriptures taken as literal by the Christians help them to rely on God. He says that social scientists have lured worshippers into active learning where they would experience scriptures with all senses. The author adds that literal practices make experiences of God with more details and involvement.

A correction to the article regarding the role of the social scientists in the re-election campaign of U.S. President Barack Obama in the November 13, 2012 is presented.

The article profiles social scientist James R. Flynn and his insight regarding I.Q. (intelligence quotient) test. He notes that I.Q. gains over time introduce interesting questions concerning the American society, stressing that I.Q. testing continues to be a contentious field of social science. His book "Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century" is mentioned.

From 2001 to 2005, a team of social scientists studied 32 middle-class families in Los Angeles, a project documenting every wiggle of life at home. The study was generated by the U.C.L.A. Center on the Everyday Lives of Families to understand how people handled what anthropologists call material culture -- what we call stuff. These were dual-earner households in a range of ethnic groups, neighborhoods, incomes and occupations, with at least two children between the ages of 7 and 12 -- in other words, households smack in the weeds of family life. What the researchers gleaned was an unflinching view of the American family, with all its stresses and joys on display. They've organized their findings into a book, scheduled to be available next week, called ''Life at Home in the 21st Century.'' It's full of intriguing data points about the number of possessions the families owned (literally, thousands), much of it children's toys. Women's stress-hormone levels spiked when confronted with family clutter; the men's, not so much. Finally, there was a direct relationship between the amount of magnets on refrigerators and the amount of stuff in a household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists. At least that is how the system is supposed to work. But lately social scientists have come up against an exception that is, true to its name, huge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earlier this week a Times article looked at social scientists who are trying to study Occupy Wall Street in real time. But a group of archivists are also hitting the streets, and the Internet, in an effort to preserve the movement's traces for scholars of the future. Within weeks of the occupation of Zuccotti Park last fall archivists from the New-York Historical Society and other institutions were out scooping up posters, fliers, pamphlets, signs and other ephemera. ''For us, it's an event in New York City,'' said Jean Ashton, the society's executive vice president and director of its library, which has so far amassed several hundred Occupy-related artifacts. ''We want to make sure that people understand what happened here.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday for May Day events across the country will most likely skew male, young, white, college educated, underpaid, and thoroughly disgusted with the American political system. But the crowds may also be notably heavy on another demographic cohort: notebook-wielding social scientists hoping to get a more precise understanding of the nebulously organized individuals marching under the banner ''We are the 99 percent.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''The Rediscovery of Character'' (column, March 6): [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The obituaries for James Q. Wilson, the eminent social scientist, generally emphasized his ''broken windows'' theory on how to reduce crime. That's natural. This strategy, which contributed to the recent reduction in crime rates, was his most tangible legacy. But broken windows was only a small piece of what Wilson contributed, and he did not consider it the center of his work. The best way to understand the core Wilson is by borrowing the title of one of his essays: ''The Rediscovery of Character.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

James Q. Wilson, a wide-ranging social scientist whose ''broken windows'' theory of law enforcement laid the groundwork for crime reduction programs in New York, Los Angeles and other cities, died on Friday in Boston. He was 80. The cause was complications of leukemia, his son, Matthew, said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Traditionalists and etiquette mavens are complaining, but the rest of us can thank social scientists this season. They have come up with experimental evidence to support three revolutionary rules for people who hate shopping for holiday gifts: 1. You don't have to spend any time looking for ''thoughtful'' gifts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although it has never been definitively proven, many social scientists believe that abused children are more likely to become abusers as adults. Now for the first time, there is evidence of the phenomenon in animals in the wild. Researchers writing in the October issue of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists' Union, studied Nazca boobies, ground-nesting birds native to the Galapagos Islands. The adults leave their chicks -- they raise only one at a time -- to forage for food, and often other adults approach the unguarded young. Almost all chicks have some contact with unrelated adults, which can be aggressive or sexual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than 60 years ago, in his ''Foundation'' series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science -- psychohistory -- that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet -- Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones -- to do the same thing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Single-sex education is ineffective, misguided and may actually increase gender stereotyping, a paper to be published Friday asserts. The report, ''The Pseudoscience of Single Sex Schooling,'' to be published in Science magazine by eight social scientists who are founders of the nonprofit American Council for CoEducational Schooling, is likely to ignite a new round of debate and legal wrangling about the effects of single-sex education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here's a September celebration you probably didn't know about: It's National Single and Unmarried Americans Week. But maybe celebration isn't the right word. Social scientists and researchers say the plight of the American single person is cause for growing concern. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

How low can the market go? For real estate, some economists say, an end to the seemingly endless decline in housing values might be in sight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- For three hours on Sunday morning, as the nightclub around him filled up with dry ice and stiletto heels, 28-year-old Ziya Rahbarli watched the gigantic screen with the gravity of a social scientist. His analysis of previous Eurovision Song Contests left him convinced that victory hinges on geopolitics -- a subject all too familiar in Azerbaijan, a small, oil-rich nation wedged between Iran and Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because of an editing error, the Findings column on Tuesday, about political bias among social scientists, omitted the last four words of a sentence that countered the notion that female scientists face discrimination and various forms of unconscious bias. The sentence should have read: But that assumption has been repeatedly contradicted, most recently in a study published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by two Cornell psychologists, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

INTERACTIVE TIMELINE Gabrielle Giffords has gone from a budding social scientist to a business owner to a member of Congress to a survivor of what the authorities call an attempted assassination. nytimes.com/national [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Faced with unusually sharp ideological attacks after its latest bid to stimulate the economy, the Federal Reserve now faces a challenge far removed from the conduct of monetary policy: how to defend itself in a hyperpartisan environment without becoming overtly political. Caught off guard by accusations from Congressional Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Party activists and conservative economists, the central bank and its chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, are pushing back, making their case on substantive grounds but also haltingly adopting the tactics of Washington battle, like strategically placed interviews, behind-the-scenes assuaging of opponents and reaching out to potential allies on Capitol Hill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DUBLIN -- Ireland has finally taken its medicine, accepting the financial rescue package European officials have been pushing for several weeks. But even as Europe moved to avert this latest debt crisis, economists and policy experts are increasingly debating whether it would be better, and fairer, for the Continent's weakest economies to default on payments to lenders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the Federal Reserve under attack at home and abroad, it is making an unusual public bid to keep itself away from the political crossfire. After a barrage of criticism over the last week -- including from foreign leaders, Congressional officials, economists and Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman -- the Fed came out to explain its efforts to inject $600 billion more into the sagging economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE clamor to cut the budget deficit is deafening. Blue Dog Democrats, Tea Party Republicans and doomsday economists are calling for immediate action. And the demands for austerity coming from abroad are even louder. Make no mistake: persistent large budget deficits are a significant problem. Government borrowing in good times crowds out private investment and lowers long-run growth. It can also make policy makers unable or unwilling to use adequate fiscal stimulus in times of need: concerns about the deficit limited the size of the stimulus act in 2009 and are a main reason that Congress has refused to take additional measures to cut our painfully high rate of unemployment. And our projected long-run deficits are simply unsustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that erupted after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant labor secretary in the Johnson administration, introduced the idea of a ''culture of poverty'' to the public in a startling 1965 report. Although Moynihan didn't coin the phrase (that distinction belongs to the anthropologist Oscar Lewis), his description of the urban black family as caught in an inescapable ''tangle of pathology'' of unmarried mothers and welfare dependency was seen as attributing self-perpetuating moral deficiencies to black people, as if blaming them for their own misfortune. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''Why All Indiscretions Appear Youthful'' (Mind, Oct. 5): In finding that we tend to date our moral failings about 10 years earlier than our good deeds, social scientists conclude that people shape their moral memories to show that their character is improving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TOKYO ''Japan's problems now are the same as they were in the 1990s, when you were writing about them. It's depressing.'' So declared one economist I spoke to here. ''But the Japanese don't seem all that depressed,'' objected another. Both were right -- and the conversation crystallized some thoughts I've been having about Japan's situation, and ours. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Poverty, greed, anger, jealousy, pride, revenge. These are the usual suspects when it comes to discussing the causes of crime. In recent years, however, economists have started to investigate a different explanation for criminal activity: physical attributes. A small band of economists has been studying how height, weight and beauty affect the likelihood of committing -- or being convicted of -- a crime. Looking at records from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, they have found evidence that shorter men are 20 to 30 percent more likely to end up in prison than their taller counterparts, and that obesity and physical attractiveness are linked to crime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A WOMAN descended from the hero who unified Germany was chatting with a woman descended from a Puerto Rican matriarch raised in a family of 14. The setting was a cocktail party on the terrace of the Grand Suite at the Pierre and the subject was diet, always fit fuel for discussion in a town where startling numbers go hungry by choice. ''My mother called it the soap dish,'' said Candy Pratts Price, a contributing editor at Vogue, referring to a collarbone hollow prized by social X-rays and judged by social scientists to be a sign of malnourishment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Household incomes remained flat in February as a weak jobs market crimped paychecks, the Commerce Department indicated on Monday. But even as wages held steady, consumers were more willing to part with the little cash they had on hand -- a trend economists expect to continue. Spending rose 0.3 percent, or $34.7 billion, compared with January, the fifth month of increases. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Linda I. Gibbs, 50, one of the city's six deputy mayors, has a portfolio that includes homelessness, child welfare, aging, hospitals and juvenile justice. On Sundays, she mostly sticks to more cheerful pursuits in Brooklyn. Ms. Gibbs lives in a loft in Brooklyn Heights with her husband of 17 years, Tom McMahon, 55, a government relations consultant, and their two children, Ryann, 16, and Leo, 14. JULIE BOSMAN READING AT DAWN Five o'clock is a typical get-up time, which I actually like, because until 7 or 8, it's totally quiet. And it's a chance to do reading. I hesitate to say it, but I'm in three reading groups. And so one is mostly fiction and two are nonfiction. One of those is a whole range of disciplines by intention, so there's anthropologists and sociologists and psychologists. I'm the token lawyer. And the idea is to try to bring different perspectives to things that we read, and we read a lot of history, philosophy and science. We just finished Sir Thomas Aquinas's political writings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For once, social scientists have discovered a flaw in the human psyche that will not be tedious to correct. You may not even need a support group. You could try on your own by starting with this simple New Year's resolution: Have fun ... now! Then you just need the strength to cash in your gift certificates, drink that special bottle of wine, redeem your frequent flier miles and take that vacation you always promised yourself. If your resolve weakens, do not succumb to guilt or shame. Acknowledge what you are: a recovering procrastinator of pleasure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism from a panel of anthropologists who argue that the undertaking is dangerous, unethical and unscholarly. The committee, which released the report on Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the discipline's largest professional group, has been studying the program since its inception in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]