Institute for Social Research

Research

ISR contributes to the body of knowledge about human behavior and social interaction, collecting data of interest to the general public, to decision-makers in government and the private sector, and to scholars everywhere.

Our Centers

U-M homelab, ICPSR summer institute, Insights Speaker Series, PSC Training program, Survey of Consumers's director Joanne Hsu

ISR consists of five separate but interdependent research centers, each with a particular focus and capabilities. 

Projects

Mozambique cyclone

Health Decision-Making in the Aftermath of a Disaster: Evidence from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

American voters

Voter Study Group

A More Efficient Web-Based Approach to Collecting National Family, Fertility and Reproductive Health Data

The Aggression Research Group applies an ecological model to understand how violence begets violence through observational learning and situational instigators.

The Aggression Research Group

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Topics

Data and Publications

ISR Publications Database

Classroom Resources

ISR offers resources that can be used by high school and college educators to bring the social sciences to life in classroom settings.

For Study Participants

If you have been contacted by an interviewer from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center, we hope you will decide to participate. The data collected as part of our studies is widely used by researchers, decision makers and government leaders in the sharing of information and creation of policies that affect all of our lives.

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