The disgust response acts as a behavioral immune system, protecting us from disease, but produces strong reactions to perceived out-groups.

Climategate began with the leaking of emails sent to and from climate scientists. Climate skeptics quickly seized on just a few of them

A Curious Reader asks: What’s the origin of the familiar breakfast-lunch-dinner triad?

Can empirical data about human behavior make the “soft” sciences more like the “hard” ones? New interdisciplinary fields are voting yes.

A recent wave of subway slashings in New York City is an opportunity to examine the criminology and sociology behind copycat crime.

The sociologists Michael Radlet and Marian Borg test out six arguments for and against capital punishment.