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.
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.
Professor emeritus of development sociology Joseph Mayone Stycos, who taught at Cornell for 43 years, died June 24 at Kendal at Ithaca. He founded the International Population Program in 1962 and directed it for 30 years.
At the China-Asia Pacific Studies Program roundtable Oct. 19 in Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell faculty members discussed the implications of the American election on U.S. relations with Asia.
Several Cornell researchers shared findings and insights from their respective fields at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago, Feb. 12-17.
It takes “highly diagnostic” information – the kind that is especially revealing of a person’s true nature or character – to change a first impression, Cornell psychologists discover.
At the intersection of activism and academia, a climate change and clean energy panel Feb. 26 gave details of environmental urgency and impending social refinements.
To celebrate the launch of the new student blog about foreign affairs, The Diplomacist, two Cornell professors and a war veteran will discuss Afghanistan at a talk, Jan. 31. (Jan. 31, 2011)