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The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms

Authors of one academic study out of Northeastern and George Washington universities said they focus on conventional loans only because FHA loans have “long been implemented in a manner that promotes segregation.”
MIT Technology Review

This is how your brain makes your mind

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.
Science Times

Artificial Intelligence: Why it Can’t Detect the Correlation Between Human Emotion and Facial Expression

Lisa Feldman Barrett, the lead author of the study and a psychology professor at Northeastern University, says that the research directly counters the traditional approach of AI with emotions reports Gadgets360.
The Conversation

Why people feel guilty about using effort-saving products when taking care of loved ones

Mary Steffel Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University
GBH

We Were Short On Mental Health Resources For Kids Even Before COVID Hit. What Do We Do Now?

Among them is Northeastern University School psychology professor Amy Briesh. 
Quanta Magazine

The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does

Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do so “the way old-fashioned mapmakers” did, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. “They parse the brain in terms of what they’re interested in psychologically or mentally or behaviorally,” and then […]

With unvaccinated patients filling most hospital beds, should they pay more for health insurance?

Gary Young, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, said adopting this kind of policy could be a tricky path to follow from a legal standpoint.
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CVS Lost More Controlled Substance Doses Last Year Than All Other Mass. Pharmacies Combined

When Todd Brown, vice chairman of the Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences at the Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, was told of the large amount of missing controlled substances at a Massachusetts chain pharmacy, he said. “I know who it is — it’s CVS.” “Historically, CVS has had a problem with missing controlled […]
The Conversation

Students are returning to school with anxiety, grief and gaps in social skills – will there be enough school mental health resources?

Amy Briesch Associate Professor of School Psychology, Northeastern University
The Next Web

Why emotion recognition AI can’t reveal how we feel

Study co-author Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, said the findings challenge common claims around emotion AI: Certain companies claim they have algorithms that can detect anger, for example, when what really they have — under optimal circumstances — are algorithms that can probably detect scowling, which may or may not be an expression of […]

What an Adult Tricycle Says About the World’s Bottleneck Problems

And the future hinges in part on the virus. Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, predicted that the highly contagious Delta variant would most likely delay a return to normal until at least 2023. Given that many parts of the world still have large unvaccinated populations, hot spots across the […]

50 Years After Vietnam, Thousands Flee Another Lost American War

Public attitudes toward refugees already were shifting, said Dr. Parekh, a professor at Northeastern University. “Refugees start to look more foreign or dissimilar to people in the U.S.,” she said. “Instead of being seen as people courageously fleeing persecution, they are seen as people who will be an economic burden.”