A self-reinforcing cycle connecting depleted soils and rural farmers may be one answer why Sub-Saharan Africa is home to most of the world's extreme poor, say Cornell researchers.
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)
Social scientists have known for several years that kids enrolled in run-down schools miss more classes and have lower test scores. But they haven’t been able to pin down why. A Cornell environmental psychologist has an answer.
Top Cornell and visiting academics take on the ramifications of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in an open discussion Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m., Statler Hall Auditorium. (Sept. 7, 2011)
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.
John Hale's study, “Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure at various grain sizes,” examines how the individual words of Lewis Carroll's famous tale come together to yield an understanding of each sentence.
Researchers find that people who were relatively tall as teens are more likely to invest in stocks, and those who were overweight are more risk-averse and less likely to participate in the market.
With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.
Political scientist Adam Seth Levine offers a new perspective on barriers to political involvement on economic insecurity concerns in his new book, "American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction."
The way conservation biologists describe a species' risk of extinction, and how the public interprets that description, can be strikingly different, according to a new study by Cornell communication scholars.