When faced with life’s daily challenges, adults who don’t maintain a positive outlook have shown elevated physiological markers for cardiovascular and autoimmune disease, according to Cornell research.
Vanquishing the agony of defeat, Cornell food scientists now have better grasp on the sweet, thrilling taste of victory. And in the face of loss, the researchers found prompts for emotional eating.
Cornell social scientists have shown how to reduce wide variability for monetary judgments when juries are awarding plaintiff's for pain and suffering. It all comes down to getting the gist.
A memorandum of understanding between Cornell and Costa Rica will bring more graduate students to the university to study public administration in the College of Human Ecology.
Cornell’s latest Naturalist Outreach film, "Pollination: Trading Fertilization for Food," made its national debut at the 2015 Animal Behavior Society Film Festival on June 12 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Cornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has given $1.2 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 11 new university projects from 37 proposals.
After surveying more than 700 people wedded for nearly 40,000 years, gerontologist Karl Pillemer distilled key pieces of advise and wisdom about how to sustain a happy marriage.
In the latest Empire State Poll, asking about trust of local police, about 23 percent of black New York state residents reported a low level of trust, compared to only 12 percent of Caucasians.
Researchers in a joint study with Cornell, the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto believe genes really can regulate response to emotional information.
