Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …

mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic … stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries … the deterioration of mental health, by the propensity to relieve the pain through the use of illicit drugs, by deaths of …

height were greater in the East amongfemales, and less among males than in the West. Spatial inequality wasgreater in the … difficultiesexperienced by the East-German population after 1961 is evident in theincrease in social inequality of physical stature thereafter …