New research shows that we feel more gratitude for what we've done than for what we have – and that kind of gratitude results in more generous behavior toward others.
Researchers at Cornell and Michigan have joined teams in France to find out if native speakers of American English and French use the same brain structures to understand a story when it is read to them in their own language.
Adam Levine spoke to a standing-room only crowd in McGraw Hall Nov. 10 as faculty and students joined his American Political Campaigns class for a 2016 election recap.
Political scientist Miriam Elman of Syracuse University spoke about rising tensions in Jerusalem in Nov. 3 campus talk, “Jerusalem: Conflict in the Holy City.”
Researchers find that people who were relatively tall as teens are more likely to invest in stocks, and those who were overweight are more risk-averse and less likely to participate in the market.
With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.
The 2016 Empire State Healthcare Survey, conducted by the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, revealed that the cost of medical care and health insurance has many New Yorkers worried.
When women planned to delay marriage and limit the number of children they wanted – which would let them focus exclusively on work – they didn’t get the same employment opportunities in STEM as men, according to a new study.
The way conservation biologists describe a species' risk of extinction, and how the public interprets that description, can be strikingly different, according to a new study by Cornell communication scholars.
