Harvard Assistant Professor Ryan Enos and Northeastern Assistant Professor Nick Beauchamp study political behavior and discussed what moves people to the polls.

Price discrimination appears to be alive and well on the Internet. A group of professors at Northeastern University in Boston examined 10 major e-retailers along with with six hotel/rental car sites to determine if they implement price discrimination or price steering. The answer was yes. “We saw price steering … with the order of search […]

A new study claims that some of the most popular e-commerce websites don’t always offer the same prices to everyone.

Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, launched a series of operations this month in what theWashington Post called a “concerted push to vanquish the moderate Free Syrian Army.” This caused significant territorial and weapons loss for moderate rebels, grouped under the Free Syrian Army (FSA) label, in the Idlib province, an opposition stronghold. “Is […]

As his collaborators spread out, they will encounter a world not always eager to embrace Kahan’s work. Some social scientists can’t get past his ties to Mary Douglas; either they hold a grudge from her book or they echo her concern that worldviews don’t really exist in individuals. Others question the validity of cultural cognition […]

People have a mental model of shopping that is based on experiences from brick-and-mortar stores. We intuitively understand how this process works: all available products are displayed around the store and the prices are clearly marked. Many stores offer deals via coupons, membership cards, or to special classes of people such as students or AARP […]

Northeastern University researchers use computers to simulate 20 million virtual Ebola outbreaks each week. Yale scientists are building three models that project the spread of the deadly disease. And a team at Boston Children’s Hospital is combing through data to gauge whether medical interventions are working. These researchers may not be on West Africa’s front […]

People have a mental model of shopping that is based on experiences from brick-and-mortar stores. We intuitively understand how this process works: All available products are displayed around the store and the prices are clearly marked. Many stores offer deals via coupons, membership cards or to special classes of people such as students or AARP […]

Crowdsourcing ideas that capture the interest of sports fans can be effective because the most important thing about the process is that the crowd is engaged, said Jeff Howe, an assistant journalism professor and coordinator of the media innovations program at Northeastern University in Boston. “When you have that level of motivation, that’s what crowdsourcing […]

As a result, Massachusetts court proceedings have an almost uniquely retro look. The US Supreme Court publishes its opinions in neat, literary Century type. The State Department defected from Courier a decade ago in favor of Times New Roman. Even middle-school students can print their papers in high-toned Bodoni or Garamond. “If the court asked, […]

In a second simulation, Northeastern University professor Alessandro Vespignani projected between one case — the most likely scenario — and a slim chance of as many as eight cases though the end of November. “I’m always trying to tell people to keep calm and keep thinking rationally,” said Vespignani, who projects the spread of infectious […]

John Coley, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University, took particular interest in the media’s doubts about the fisherman story because it fits into research on memory and cognition. “Memory is not like a video camera,” Coley told Boston.com. “What’s making this look like a problem is that people don’t understand how memory works.” […]