COS Connects YouTube feauturing psychology professors Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and Craig Ferris.

A nationwide mental health 'emergency' has been declared as a result of rising rates of mental health problems among the youth.

Iris Berent's new research uncovers that infants are born with the ability to learn language, speech and sign.

Psychology professor, David DeSteno explains how science has been able to highlight the benefits that organized religion provides.

For anyone who is even moderately active on social media in 2021, confronting world chaos is part of the daily routine—so much so that we’ve coined phrases to help capture the feeling of being in the digital midst of so much catastrophe: “doomscrolling.” Whether it’s climate change and the accelerating natural disasters brought on by […]

Aliyah Jackson, second-year psychology student opens up about her co-op experience at You're With Us!, and the valuable lessons it taught her.

A group of researchers including psychology professor, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, receive NSF grant to acquire a machine capable of delivering transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

This fall, Jorge Morales, PhD, joins the psychology department at the College of Science as an assistant professor. He will also hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Morales is currently completing post-doc work at Johns Hopkins University and starting his interdisciplinary lab at Northeastern. […]

Rebecca Shansky's research finds that stress during Covid-19 can change the way the human brain works.

Distinguished Psychology Professor, Lisa Feldman Barrett's newest study finds that human emotions cannot be determined by facial expressions alone, they must rely on context.

Timothy Morris did not anticipate he would become an academic, but his career path led him to the position he now loves: postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern. Morris recounts his research journey, the significance of his current work, and why academia at Northeastern is his calling.

Neurogastronomy aims to help junk food addicts, cancer survivors, and COVID-19 patients.

After decades of research, scientists have developed countless therapeutics to improve human health. But they’ve also created a problem. Many of these drugs don’t work as well for half of the population—that is, the female half. Women are also more often misdiagnosed for a variety of ailments, including stroke and ADHD. The root of this […]

Researchers in Northeastern’s PEN group use machine learning analysis to question the assumption that commonly used emotion words have biological meaning in a recent paper.