Graduate student Allie Sinclair shares how new data tools being developed with grad student Morgan Taylor and collaborators at Georgia Tech can help you find out.

A pair of new papers led by grad student Allie Sinclair shows that combining local and very real risk statistics for SARS-CoV-2 infection with an exercise in imagination helped participants make more realistic decisions about their own risky behaviors.

Who is most likely to flout physical distancing rules? The answer to that question will be key to containing the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 as schools and stores reopen. Even if the current chatter is about vaccines and fantasy treatments such as bleach, it is human behaviour that drives infectious disease. And human social behaviour changes as we age.

New research by graduate student Daisy Burr shows that older people enjoy greater emotional steadiness and self-control.

With age comes greater emotional control. New lab research led by grad student Daisy Burr.

As presidents slow down, more decisions get made by other people.

For two consecutive years, Castrellon’s posters have been selected and featured at the conference as Poster Spotlights: brief talks to the entire conference audience prior to the poster session. Each year Castrellon went on to win the Best Poster Award; he is the first conference presenter to receive the award twice. 

Imagine winning the lottery and having it pay out over a scheduled period of time. Would you want the largest payments right away? Or would you rather start small and save the biggest windfall for later? Your choice may depend on how old you are.

It’s not often you hear undergraduate students studying statistics described as “surprised and enthusiastic,” yet that’s just how Gregory Samanez-Larkin, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, says his students reacted to a semester-long project on health and well-being. Using FitBits to track real-world activity, the professor and his students were able to gather valuable personal data that they could anonymously incorporate into their classwork.