How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.
Have you reached the 1 percent? Many Americans will reach the upper economic echelon, according to Thomas Hirschl, professor of development sociology. However, few are likely to stay there for long.
In researching his new book, “30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage” gerontologist Karl Pillemer found that the search for love doesn't end in our golden years.
Cornell gerontologist Karl Pillemer will become director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research Jan. 15, taking over for John Eckenrode, who has been the center's director since it was founded in 2011.
Good news for the advertising industry: Television viewers surfing the Web during commercial breaks are often triggered by TV ads to visit product websites and make purchases, according to new study.
Bernd Lambert, an authority on kinship among Pacific islanders of the Republic of Kiribati and professor of anthropology emeritus, died Jan. 3, 2015 at his Ithaca home. Lambert joined Cornell faculty in 1964.
The new book "Academic Leadership in Higher Education: From the Top Down and the Bottom Up," co-edited by Cornell professor Robert Sternberg, offers advice for new faculty administrators.
Robert Elliott Johnston, professor of psychology, died Dec. 20 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He researched animal behavior and the mechanisms of behavior in a naturalistic or evolutionary context.
A survey of women who recently gave birth found that many women change their behavior and consume less fish during pregnancy, in spite of receiving recommendations for eating fish during pregnancy.
