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Social Science at ASU: Improving human outcomes
At Arizona State University, the social sciences provide knowledge, insight and skills to answer our world's most pressing questions. Ranked No. 4 in the nation by the 2018 NSF HERD assessment, ahead of Cornell University and University of Califormia-Los Angeles and Berkeley, we leverage our place to solve human problems, improve our capacity for decision-making, generate new knowledge about society, increase social and cultural diversity and inclusion, and inform policy and social processes through design and planning.
By pushing boundaries and engagement across the university, the social sciences at ASU drives local and global research in engineering, business, health care, science and policy, as well as educational successes. Join us!
The Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment aims to be an incubator of novel research on collective action and the commons. more
Healthy Lifestyles Recharge Center is a center of excellence to prevent and reduce the burden of chronic disease across the lifespan. more
The Institute for Social Science Research provides support for research and training in the social sciences. more
Urban Climate Research Center integrates social and physical sciences to develop and test urban design and management policies to enhance the productivity, health and sustainability of urban populations. more
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June 29, 2020
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series about the impacts of disinformation, how to guard against it and what researchers are doing to stop its spread.
June 24, 2020
Human adaptation is a unique combination of maturing and learning slowly from childhood to adulthood, the development of complex production skills and the establishment of cooperative sociality.