Cornell researchers including marketing professor Kaitlin Woolley ’12 found that people relied more on the enjoyment they derived from an activity than time spent on it when gauging progress toward a goal.
People who sign consent forms feel more trapped, not more empowered, than those who give consent verbally, according to new research by Vanessa Bohns, the Braunstein Family Professor in the ILR School.
Twelve outstanding early-career scholars have been chosen as the 2026 cohort of Klarman Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
A publicly available dataset mapping moves between U.S. neighborhoods in far greater detail than standard public data could improve studies of climate risk, affordable housing and economic opportunity.
Psychology researcher Jordan Wylie and colleagues found that artistic excellence, rather than moral excellence, offers greater access to one’s true self, in part because aesthetic pursuits are seen as less rule-bound.
A Cornell-led research team found that when allies directly asked a marginalized person for help during a prejudice confrontation, marginalized group members reported more emotional burden than when no help was sought.
Widely cited messages tend to be effective but short-term messaging can only go so far in swaying people regarding the urgency of climate change, an international team led by a Cornell researcher has found.
