Nonetheless the number of women in the industry remains small, with fewer than one in 20 hedge funds employing a female portfolio manager, according to a 2015 study by Boston’s Northeastern University. By contrast, one in five mutual funds employ a female portfolio manager, according to Morningstar, the data provider.

But can a judge or jurors infer a defendant’s emotions reliably, as Justice Kennedy implied? Is it possible, as this theory holds, to detect remorse — or any other emotion — just by looking and listening? Some scientists believe so. A famous experimental paradigm called “mind in the eyes” purports to demonstrate this ability. You […]

It’s also familiar to researchers who study the psychological effects of technology. It doesn’t really have a name, but texting has a very powerful effect on the brain. “When it’s uncertain whether someone likes you, dislikes you, or means you harm, your brain just can’t help but treat it like something important,” says Northeastern University […]

Rachel Rosenbloom, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in immigration policy, said it makes sense for attorneys general to concentrate their efforts on the lawsuit in Seattle, because the restraining order Robart issued applied nationwide. She added that “there’s nothing unusual with states joining together to challenge a federal policy,” noting several states joined […]

One widely shared study from last fall, conducted in part by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern, suggested that people with a greater number of Facebook friends were less likely to die than less sociable counterparts. But those same results revealed another surprise: The Facebook behaviors most closely associated with reduced mortality seemed to involve activity […]

In her new book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Barrett – a psychology professor at Northeastern University and psychiatry lecturer at Harvard Medical School, argues that the brain is not a system of separate parts – with an amygdala serving as the brain’s 911 operator, while the […]

“As you harden the land border you open up the maritime border,” argued Stephen Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander who is director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. “It makes no sense. You are going to have this balloon effect.” The budget numbers POLITICO reviewed are an opening salvo, and agencies are […]

Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the cacophony arriving from your senses. In this manner, simulation lets […]