Calling for loyalty to a group, rather than to an individual, was more effective in eliciting followers’ compliance with unethical requests, Johnson School researcher Angus Hildreth found.
Outside of the token skate park, the diverse needs of New York state teens are often ignored when planners design public spaces. A new collaboration between a College of Human Ecology professor and Cornell Cooperative Extension seeks to put an end to that.
The psychology researcher is “one of the most prominent international contemporary scholars in the field of the cognitive and cultural foundations of language.”
Researchers from Cornell Tech, Cornell and Stanford University found that, despite their ability to display empathy, conversational agents such as Siri do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user’s experience.
One in six assisted living facility residents is subject to verbal, physical or other aggression by a fellow resident in a typical month, according to the first large-scale study of the phenomenon.
Researchers from the Brooks School combined DMV suspension records with drivers’ ZIP code data and found that drivers from marginalized communities were disproportionately impacted by both nonpayment and noncompliance suspensions.
Students from Cornell, Binghamton and Stony Brook universities came together to celebrate the contributions they made to improve local, regional and international communities during a showcase event on April 19 in the College of Human Ecology’s Commons.
Twenty sophomores in the College of Arts & Sciences will design their own interdisciplinary courses of study as the newest members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program.