Until the middle of the twentieth century, the discipline of political science was primarily qualitative – philosophical, descriptive, legalistic, and typically reliant on case studies that failed to probe causation in any measurable way. The word " science " was not entirely apt. In the 1950s, the discipline was transformed by the behavioral revolution, spearheaded by advocates of a more socia...

To be published in Methods of Modern Experimental Economics, Guillaume Frechette and Andrew Schotter (eds). Special thanks to my long-time co-authors Dan Levin and David Cooper as the ideas expressed here have been largely developed in working with them. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views o...

This review paper is devoted to a presentation of recent progress in wave turbulence. I first present the context and state of the art of this field of research both experimentally and theoretically. I then focus on the case of wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid, and I discuss the main results obtained by our group: caracterization of the gravity and capillary wave turbulence regimes, th...

Controlled laboratory experiments give researchers a great deal of control in making them useful for testing analytical models. In this tutorial I introduce laboratory experiments and discuss methodological issues in designing and conducting laboratory