More than 100 scholars, artists and clinicians will visit campus Aug. 10-14 for a joint conference of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and the International Association for Jungian Studies. (July 6, 2010)
A $3.8 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation will fund a new research project on hope and optimism, co-directed by Cornell philosophy professor Andrew Chignell.
At 7 percent of the population, newly identified minority on the sexual-orientation continuum, the mostly heterosexuals, have more mental-health problems than most.
A herpetologist and a political scientist have won Luce scholarships to study in Asia for a year. The Luce Scholars Program began in 1974 to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders. (March 10, 2011)
Older children, interestingly, are more likely, not less likely, than younger children to faithfully imitate actions unnecessary to a task at hand, reports Cornell research.
How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.