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 […]

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 […]