Cooperation can make us stronger, building alliances and increasing the availability of resources. A recent symposium hosted by the Human Evolutionary Biology Initiative brought together researchers to examine this principle, sharing studies and findings on intergroup cooperation from a variety of fields.
Singer Mavis Staples, actress Angela Bassett, and soccer star Didier Drogba were among the honorees presented with W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Thursday at Sanders Theatre. The annual ceremony, hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, recognizes outstanding contributions to Black history and culture.
A recent study from the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies describes how games aimed at improving social skills, played in preschool settings, boost social-cognitive development for Brazilian children living near or below the poverty line.
“We have never before shown an entire exhibition from the French and Creole-speaking Caribbean,” said Cécile Fromont, M.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’08, faculty director of the Hutchins Center’s Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art.
Menstrual tracking apps have become all the rage, leading the growing field of “femtech” that claims to help women understand — and regulate — their bodies. But these apps may promise more than they deliver — and even be harmful to women.
The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, nursing homes, workplaces, even bedrooms.
Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to live deliberately. But for far longer, he pursued a lesser-known obsession: observing scientifically.
Say political engagement could be increased in a certain society by the introduction of effective artificial intelligence tools — but those living there would have fewer in-person interactions. Should such tools be adopted?
The topping-off ceremony, a construction rite rooted in ancient Scandinavian rituals, took place August 27 at the site of the future Pritzker Hall, which will house the Department of Economics. The building project was set in motion five years ago.
Amid the rhythms of the back-to-campus bustle, new faculty find themselves experiencing the same first-day excitement — and jitters. We dropped in on three, on the first day of their first classes.
Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before they occurred.