Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found.
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have found that an immune “tolerance” to gut microbes depends on an ancient bacterial-sensing protein that is normally considered a trigger for inflammation.
The Scheinman Institute, which promotes a problem-solving approach to dispute resolution, has formed the Cornell ILR National Conflict Resolution Service in collaboration with the American Arbitration Association.
Weill Cornell Medicine researcher Nancy Du received a $500,000 grant from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs at the U.S. Department of Defense, but a stop-work order brought her research to a halt in April.
Snapshot NY aims to collect widespread data about animal populations throughout New York state - using thousands of trail cameras - and is engaging the public to aid the effort.
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
Social media can influence workplace policies by amplifying worker voices, but fail to drive meaningful workplace improvement when workers lack support from labor unions or civil society organizations, according to new research by Duanyi Yang, assistant professor at the ILR School.
The "premier telescope in space right now" will start a fourth annual cycle of observations on July 1, and three early-career astronomy researchers in A&S are PI or co-PI on observation programs chosen from a very competitive field.
Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years and identified rigid gender stereotypes in the attributes and occupations of feminine and masculine characters.
Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Adam Hughes, MPH, has been appointed to a national-level leadership position with the Extension Foundation, where he will support national Cooperative Extension health and well-being initiatives.
Study participants who watched scenes from popular movies showed emotion plays a larger role than previously understood in establishing event boundaries that help structure attention and memory.
