USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Social Science News

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  Peer Pressure? It's Hardwired Into Our Brains

  September 8, 2011

  The rewards outweigh the risks — when you’re in a group, anyway. A new USC study explains why people take stupid chances, when all of their friends are watching, that they would never take by themselves. … more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: brain, economics, georgio coricelli, proceedings of the national academy of sciences, psychology, publication, social science

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  Nothing Routine About 2013

  January 27, 2010

  USC College’s new group of freshmen, the Class of 2013, is extraordinary. Some are entering the university already world travelers. They are not only intelligent but talented; they are dancers, singers, actors and… more>

  categories: undergraduate

  tags: community service, humanities, natural sciences, social science, travel

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  Exploring the Rise and Demise of Empires

  January 26, 2010

  When Sarah Hawley took her first archaeology course in USC College, she did not know it would be a watershed experience. Entering USC to study theatre the year before, she was immediately hooked and switched her… more>

  categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research

  tags: archaeology, history, social science, turkey

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  A World of Learning

  November 1, 2008

  The office of the U.S. secretary of state... A cave in southern Belize... A health clinic in central Mexico... This summer, learning at USC College soared beyond the classroom to some surprising places. Undergraduates in… more>

  categories: undergraduate

  tags: environmental studies, field research, international relations, natural sciences, problems without passports, social science, travel

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  The New Three R’s

  October 1, 2007

  It’s a little bit hard to pigeonhole Manuel Pastor, who joined the USC College faculty this fall. The professor of geography and of American studies and ethnicity is an economist by training, but his work ranges across… more>

  tags: professor, social science