Stress can lead to risky decisions
Neuroscientists find chronic stress skews decisions toward higher-risk options.
Course helps girls in Botswana avoid HIV and “sugar daddies”
Youth-to-youth program teaches girls about the increased odds of contracting HIV from older men.
When negotiating, pride goeth before destruction
Study finds good feelings from one negotiation can damage subsequent performance.
Babies can learn that hard work pays off
Study finds infants try harder after seeing adults struggle to achieve a goal.
Analyzing the language of color
Cognitive scientists find that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones.
How retractions hurt scientists’ credibility
Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.
Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.
Wearable device reveals consumer emotions
Startup’s stress sensor tracks users’ unconscious responses to products and experiences.
How J-PAL thinks globally and acts locally
Can an antipoverty program work in different settings? A new report presents a user’s guide to a tough issue.
Darwin visits Wall Street
Andrew Lo’s new book urges a rethink of financial markets, along evolutionary lines.
You belong @ MIT
A new initiative developed by the Teaching and Learning Lab is designed to increase students’ sense of academic belonging.
Stopping the revolving prison door
J-PAL North America tests innovative strategies to reduce recidivism and help inmates transition back to society.
Detecting walking speed with wireless signals
By measuring this emerging vital sign, CSAIL system could help monitor and diagnose health issues like cognitive decline and cardiac disease.
Revolutionizing global health
In more than 20 years working on wireless sensors and radio frequency identification (RFID), Richard Fletcher has produced several startups and over a dozen patents.
Brain circuit enables split-second decisions when cues conflict
New findings shed light on how we quickly assess risks and rewards before acting.