Experiments with 1,600 volunteers link social exclusion to higher interest in gossip

Ages ago, when societies were organized around small villages, a person's security and sense of belonging depended partly on ...

San Francisco, Texas connected by payphones in social experiment for political conversation

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Public payphones are making a comeback. But these ones don’t take coins. They just connect people. A ...
Coby Finds It on MSN

A social experiment asking police officers for numbers

This video features a social experiment where a woman approaches police officers in public and asks for their phone numbers. The experiment observes how officers react in a professional setting, ...
Engadget

Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve ...
Gizmodo

Facebook Is Changing the Way It Governs Its Social Experiments

Remember how the whole Internet was outraged over Facebook’s social experiments earlier this year? Well, now the social network hasannounced that it’s changing the way its experiments will be run in ...
Variety

Inside the Indian Adaptation of Reality Hit ‘Rise and Fall’: ‘It’s a Pure Social Experiment About Power and Status’

When Banijay Asia set out to adapt the U.K. reality format “Rise and Fall” for Indian audiences, the company made a deliberate choice to abandon the crowded field of dance competitions and celebrity ...