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Over Half of Gen Z Wants To Quit Their Job

Paula Caligiuri, professor of international business at Northeastern University, toldNewsweek:“[Gen Z] know jobs are temporary, so they treat them that way. They don’t buy the old myths of ‘stick it out’ or “do your time” in exchange for career rewards. 
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The ‘Cancel Disney’ Movement Grew Powerful — And It Shows Why Protests Work

For a boycott to be successful, a targeted company needs to notice the boycott’s reputational and financial damage, said Koen Pauwels, a professor of marketing at Northeastern University.
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Kimmel suspension draws backlash, comedians warn of chilling effect

“It’s almost immaterial what [Kimmel] said,” said First Amendment expert Dan Kennedy, “It did seem to me that he was being more insulting to President Trump than he was of Charlie Kirk, so there really shouldn’t have been any sensitivities raised. The president is supposed to be able to take speech like this.”
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Amid confusion over federal vaccine recommendations, states become laboratories of public health

Public health law has long tilted toward the states. “If there was a public health issue, we’d say it’s for the states,” Wendy Parmet of Northeastern University explained.
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Pregnant with pain or fever? Trump says ‘fight like hell.’ What do doctors say?

But there’s a “long and rich” scientific literature that shows fevers, especially in early pregnancy, carry “really significant” risk of morbidity and mortality for pregnant people and infants, said Laurel Gabard-Durnam, assistant professor and associate director of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University.

The Psychological Value of Repentance

Religious rituals facilitate moral accountability in a way that is rare in secular society. Without religion “there’s no real, formalized way to do it,” said David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University.

Northeastern alum named 2025 NASA Astronaut Candidate

A Northeastern alum has been named one of NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates.
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The enduring appeal of workplace television

It is evidence of a so-called “work society”, says Sam Waterman, assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, that is, “work as socially rather than just economically compulsory”. Highlight
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‘The most emotional terrorism in a movie I’ve ever seen’: Why does an animal’s death on film affect us so deeply?

The subject that has even drawn scientific attention, having been analyzed by researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University and the University of Colorado. For the study, 256 students were shown four pieces of fake news about a supposed brutal attack carried out with a baseball bat.
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Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

But Corbett and Munneke, now based at MIT and Northeastern University respectively, were certain that there would also be important cognitive components to the inversion question that could be measured only through behavioural responses. 

Trump’s Climate Rollback Takes on a Key Scientific Finding

“They think they have a good chance of succeeding because the Supreme Court in recent cases has significantly curbed agency authority,” said Sharmila Murthy, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University.
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US right shifts tone on social media censorship after Charlie Kirk’s murder

“The attorney general herself made comments about limiting hate speech online that have actually drawn a backlash from other conservatives, but other conservatives are fighting with each other about this,” John Wihbey, director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University, told Al Jazeera.