Receiving simple, supportive texts from a romantic partner – however brief or affectionate – can help people cope with stressful events in their daily lives, new Cornell psychology research finds. The findings are among the first outside a controlled lab setting to show that reminders about a close partner can help regulate emotions.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour introduce the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviours from videos. The robust and easy-to-use tool thus lowers the barrier of entry for biologists who would like to automate data collection using novel AI technologies.

In a new study, researchers evaluated the long-term impacts of a large public closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance project in Newark, NJ. The study found that the project was associated with reduced auto thefts three to four years after cameras were installed, effects that might not have been found if the evaluation ended after just one or two years.

The results, based on 292 hours of coverage, show a marked imbalance in the representation of men and women and the roles assigned to them