A common interest in language unites social scientists and natural language processing (NLP) researchers. While both fields leverage the strong connection between language and behavior, social ...

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Researchers at HSE University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified 15 key motives that drive human behavior. By analyzing people's views, preferences, and actions ...

We are pleased to share with you the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles* in social science and human behavior published in 2023. Featuring authors from ...

Why doesn't that person ask for advice on their own?Have you ever wondered this in the workplace?For example, suppose there ...

Alex “Sandy” Pentland is a pioneer in harnessing network science to understand and change real-world human behaviors. The director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, and creator and ...

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Every day, billions of people document their lives online. They post on social media, write product reviews, leave comments about their workplaces, share health concerns in patient portals and discuss ...

When you try to understand people and explain why they do what they do, what frame do you use? The most common, intuitive (and highly useful) approach is the “belief-desire” frame. That is, people in ...

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