The forthcoming movie “Inside Out” from Disney-Pixar explores the life of a young girl through characters who each represent an emotion like joy, fear, anger or disgust. While boiling each emotion down to a distinct personality with specific duties makes for an entertaining movie, science is beginning to reveal the flaws in this traditional essentialist […]

You may pay more than your friends when shopping online based on your web browsing history or what kind of smartphone you own, according to a new study analyzing price discrimination on e-​​commerce sites. In April and May of this year, researchers at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity in Boston studied the search results of 300 people who […]

Recently, I asked Co-Founder and CEO of New Grounds Food, Johnny Fayad, his opinion on how more college students can start up their own ventures because he is currently operating a startup all the while attending Northeastern University. Johnny and his team raised over $35,000 via Kickstarter for their all natural CoffeeBar, and were featured […]

“Our system will be based on direct sniffing,” Zang said. “We don’t swab your hand. We don’t swab your purse. We sniff it like a dog because sampling of the surface always depends on how much you swab and where you swab. But for sniffing, the molecule hanging around in the air will make a […]

All Evan Goldfinger wanted was a rock climbing wall. The now second year Northeastern University student was determined to get a wall on campus when he first got to the university. Instead, he ended up founding a nationally successful rock climbing team. “Ideally, we wanted a rock climbing wall. So how do we get a rock climbing wall? […]

For nearly 20 years, as editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine, Dana Cowin has taken readers inside a lifestyle built around beautifully prepared food. At the same time, Cowin maintained a secret that the readers didn’t know: Despite being one of the leading voices in the world of food media, she was not […]

With all the focus on strategies to resist the proverbial marshmallow, we may have been missing something right under our noses. David Desteno, Ph.D., author and professor of psychology at Northeastern University, proposes a counter-intuitive approach to building self-control. Instead of demonizing emotion, he argues that some emotional responses may be the most powerful weapons […]

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 […]