Current global efforts are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 C

HD Matthews, S Wynes - Science, 2022 - science.org
Human activities have caused global temperatures to increase by 1.25° C, and the current
emissions trajectory suggests that we will exceed 1.5° C in less than 10 years. Though the …

The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

F Battiston, E Amico, A Barrat, G Bianconi… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Complex networks have become the main paradigm for modelling the dynamics of
interacting systems. However, networks are intrinsically limited to describing pairwise …

Scaling up change: a critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action

SM Constantino, G Sparkman… - … science in the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

FC Moore, K Lacasse, KJ Mach, YA Shin, LJ Gross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential in determining
greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the scale of climate change impacts …

[HTML][HTML] Networks beyond pairwise interactions: Structure and dynamics

F Battiston, G Cencetti, I Iacopini, V Latora, M Lucas… - Physics reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

Upending racism in psychological science: Strategies to change how science is conducted, reported, reviewed, and disseminated.

NCT Buchanan, M Perez, MJ Prinstein… - American …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
As efforts to end systemic racism gain momentum across various contexts, it is critical to
consider antiracist steps needed to improve psychological science. Current scientific …

Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

The online competition between pro-and anti-vaccination views

NF Johnson, N Velásquez, NJ Restrepo, R Leahy… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Distrust in scientific expertise,,,,,,,,,,,,–is dangerous. Opposition to vaccination with a
future vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the causal agent of COVID-19, for example, could …

Can large language models transform computational social science?

C Ziems, W Held, O Shaikh, J Chen, Z Zhang… - Computational …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language
processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify …

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050

IM Otto, JF Donges, R Cremades… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide
transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 y. Accelerated technological …