Anthropology professor Nerissa Russell has published the first systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, and finds that guilt and gender play a major role in human-animal relations. (Jan. 16, 2012)
Benedict Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, has received the 2011 Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council. (Jan. 12, 2012)
An ILR School study finds that powerful people experience a physical sensation of being taller than they actually are when they exercise power. (Jan. 6, 2012)
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)
In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. (Jan. 5, 2012)
At an ILR School conference in New York City Dec. 8, experts gathered to examine how to increase hiring of people with criminal records. (Jan. 3, 2012)
A study of cohabitating couples found widespread apprehension about divorce - more than two-thirds worried about their ability to form enduring marriages and the consequences of a failed marriage. (Dec. 21, 2011)
A new Cornell study finds that teens who receive feedback from virtual pets on their iPhones are twice as likely to eat breakfast. The study is published in the Journal of Children and Media.
