President Trump’s comments about a pre-election Covid-19 vaccine proved particularly divisive, David Lazar, a professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University, tells Inverse.

Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on WGBH 2’s Beat the Press.

Recently, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, the Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab at Northeastern University, wrote an article in The New York Times entitled, “Your Brain Is Not for Thinking.” Instead, our brain is very good at keeping us alive and well, she explains. All the time, it is monitoring how things are going in our stomach, liver, […]

Job title aside, which can sound “new-agey” and be off-putting, the job itself is about understanding the role of human behavior and its impact on business, said Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University in Boston.

This week’s guests were: speaking from Kyrgyzstan, Gulnura Toralieva, a political analyst who was also a candidate for the Bir Bol party in the October elections; also from Kyrgyzstan, Kasiet Ysmanova, communications manager at the Bishkek-based social research group Central Asia Barometer; Bakyt Beshimov, a former deputy in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and also a Kyrgyz ex-ambassador to […]

Prymus Insurance in Texas asked Deborah Ramirez, a law professor and police-accountability expert at Northeastern University’s law school in Massachusetts, to analyze how much personal liability insurance should cost for cops in Colorado. Her law students are building a database of payouts for police cases based on records from the state’s five biggest cities.

Using video and considering context is “absolutely a step forward” for the field, says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor and psychologist at Northeastern University, who wrote an accompanying commentary on the study. “The question that they’re asking strikes right at the heart of the nature of emotion,” she remarks, but there’s a risk that such […]