Nori Jacoby, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded an NSF fellowship for a project to develop algorithms to more effectively harness the intelligence of crowds by improving the quality of collective evaluations
Kimberly Kopko, a Cornell University expert on child development and parenting and the Director of The Parenting Project, cautions that while the harms of social media are known, the effectiveness of bans is not, and that more research is needed.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research has announced its 2025 student fellows. This year’s cohort includes the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow and three Kohut Fellows. These emerging scholars will advance data-driven research by contributing original scholarly work that uses Roper iPoll’s extensive survey archive.
Sociologist and gerontologist Karl Pillemer has launched an online training program– one of the first in the U.S. – on family estrangement and reconciliation.
Specialized MRI scans revealed dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the locus coeruleus, a finding that helps characterize healthy aging patterns.
According to new research out of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, conservatives are more likely than liberals to negotiate over price for items such as used cars or houses.
Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U.S.
In a series of experiments, researchers in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that when people go along with opinions that go against their own, they feel more culpable for the decision if things go wrong than if they hadn’t received another opinion.
