“Most of us don’t realize how much identity information is packed into our voices, even in a single word,” says Rupal Patel, a speech scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study.

How could someone mistake the rush of an infection for the fever of love? A psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Barrett has spent her career examining the ways we construct emotions, culminating in a recent book – How Emotions Are Made – and her experience on that date is just one of many examples that […]

Kristen Lee, lead faculty for behavioral science at Northeastern University in Boston, specializes in studying self-care and resilience. She agrees that we must be careful to watch for “insularity,” as she calls it, lest we hoard concern only for those “on our own little island.” Lee also says we should be careful not to project […]

One day at graduate school, one of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s colleagues asked her out on a date. Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern Universtiy, didn’t really fancy him, but she had been in the lab all day and felt like a change of scenery, so she agreed to go to the local coffee shop. As they […]

The legal difference between murder and involuntary manslaughter is the defendant’s mental state, Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, told the AP.

New technology being developed at Northeastern University could give first responders a new tool to beat that clock.

The Democrats are moving left. This is objectively true, but it also represents a challenge for those mainstream journalists whose equilibrium has been disrupted by the Republican lurch to the extreme right over the past several decades and, more recently, by the rise of Donald Trump. The challenge can be described this way: Can the […]

The debt itself isn’t necessarily the dominant issue. It’s the debt combined with a failed economy, which then leads to high rates of poverty and unemployment along with very small tax base to keep the island afloat. “First and foremost, it was decades of Puerto Rican politicians abusing Puerto Rico’s credit card,” Amílcar Antonio Barreto, […]

“In the case of Puigdemont, people who believe in independence truly believe in independence — you don’t play around and back off at the last minute,” José F. Buscaglia, director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures at Northeastern University, told me. That meant, said Buscaglia, it would have been “political suicide” for […]

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has a long and illustrious history of issuing progressive legal decisions. But Governor Charlie Baker has reshaped the composition of the SJC during his first term by replacing five of the seven justices due to mandatory retirements. WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed discusses the implications […]

One of the Supreme Court cases that Northeastern professor Daniel Medwed is paying attention to is Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago.

The average Greater Boston resident spends 31 minutes commuting to work, one of the longer trips in the country. Jammed highways and surface roads have become the daily norm for many. There’s also the overcrowded, delay-plagued MBTA. “Unless everybody’s going to live on top of the Amazon building, we’re going to have a serious transportation […]