Editorial The social physics collective More than two centuries ago Henri de Saint-Simon envisaged physical laws to describe human societies. Driven by advances in statistical physics, network science ...

Social physics first emerged over 200 years ago as an attempt to understand society and human behavior using laws similar to those of the physical sciences. But, it wasn’t until the past two decades ...

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Auguste Comte’s dream of creating a “social physics” is given a 21st-century revival in Pentland’s (Honest Signals) latest. Drawing on research from the last decade, Pentland, director of MIT’s Human ...

A new white paper from Sage Publications reveals a gap between the aspirations for societal impact of social and behavioral ...

From the Brexit referendum to Trump’s election victory, it’s fair to say that traditional polling methods have been way off the mark in some recent cases. An emerging research field known as ...

The grand challenges of our time are primarily of a societal nature. Physics methods and approaches play an increasingly central role in improving our understanding of these challenges and in helping ...