Tobacco policy and communications expert Jim Thrasher believes the decision goes well beyond the individual. In a new $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the health promotion, education, and behavior professor will investigate how social influences – particularly those through social media – impact teens’ decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.

San Francisco State University researchers developed a tool for job interviews to assess narcissistic grandiosity among potential job candidates. Psychology Professors Kevin Eschleman and Chris Wright and four student researchers led the project, published in the Journal of Personality Assessment.

A collaborative team of researchers led by Dale Zhou, who did his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and Dani Bassett in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science looked at how nearly half a million people around the world use Wikipedia’s knowledge networks. They found stark differences in browsing habits between countries offering insights into cultural differences and potential drivers of curiosity and learning.

A University of Michigan study of a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds that the necessary process of decarbonization is repeating and recreating colonial inequalities.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released a comprehensive, 194-page report assessing their decade-long examination of the social and economic impacts that followed the introduction of casino gambling in Massachusetts.