A lack of problem-solving skills has been linked to mental health problems, such as depression and suicidality, says Amy Morin, a licensed clinical social worker, a psychotherapist and psychology professor at Northeastern University, and author of “13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do.”

Some — like Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 — might channel their rage at a specific group of people, said James Alan Fox, criminologist at Northeastern University and author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” But that doesn’t mean they’re acting on a […]

Trump’s embrace of ‘scholastic carry’ is a recycled NRA talking point from 2012. And it’s still a really bad idea, says Northeastern professor James Alan Fox.

Koen Pauwels, a marketing professor at Northeastern University who studies online consumer behavior, said the key will be if advocates can sustain the energy as they take on more difficult targets. “They shouldn’t rest on their laurels and say, ‘Hey, we made sure the NRA lost a little bit of money,’ ” he said. “That’s […]

President Trump has raised mental health as a key factor in mass shootings, including a call Thursday to create more mental hospitals. But experts say there’s little connection between a person’s mental illness and the likelihood of a mass shooting. Matthew Miller is a professor of epidemiology at Northeastern University who has published several papers […]

College admissions deans in New England are telling applicants that participating in protests likely will not jeopardize their chances of being admitted. Admissions officers at Northeastern University, Smith College, Springfield College, Hampshire College, and Mount Holyoke expressed support of student protests.

Students are, for all practical purposes, quite safe at school. In the years from 1999 to 2013, homicides, bicycle accidents, firearm accidents, falls and swimming pool drownings accounted for 31,827 of the total 32,464 reported deaths, while deaths in school shootings numbered 154, or fewer than 0.5%, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of […]

“The majority institutional ownership means that Starboard can effectively ignore retail investors,” said Nicole Boyson, an associate professor of finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Boyson said Newell’s unexpected divestiture move “signals to me that they’re running scared.”

None of the five governors’ offices responded to our questions about how they plan to monitor broadband providers for net neutrality violations. Falcon says states will need hard data, and engineers to review that data, to identify throttling, discrimination, or prioritization. That’s part of the motivation behind Northeastern University’s Wehe project, which helps users check […]

So once someone finds out that their sample contains dangerous fentanyl, what to do with that information? And how important is a tool like this in the face of the opioid crisis? The Takeaway puts that question to Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern, whose work focuses on drug […]

Getting there will take significant effort from the industry, though, if recent surveys are any indicator. A poll released earlier this week found 54 percent of Americans say they are unlikely to use self-driving cars, according to data from a Northeastern University and Gallup survey of 3,297 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 15 through Oct. 10, […]

“This is an absurd excuse,” Christo Wilson, an assistant professor in Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, tells CNBC.