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Upworthy references a 2011 study by psychology professors Jonathan Cheek and Julie Norem, with Jennifer Grimes ’05, about the four types of introvert personalities.

Mackayla Ramdhanie ’26 sees her military career as an extension of civic engagement

An opinion column in Inside Higher Education uses environmental studies professor Jay Turner’s book “Charged” as a metaphor for online learning.

Knowridge reports on a new study co-authored by Wellesley economist Tyler Giles that suggests the loss of community connections may be affecting the rise of so-called “deaths of despair.”

Nancy Wanderer ’69, University of Maine School of Law professor emerita, tells the New York Times that the Mills-Platner race gave her flashbacks to the 2016 presidential campaign.

A study shows that voters rated political candidates wearing glasses more competent.. Economist Olga Shurchkov cautions that this kind of snap judgment happens only when voters know almost nothing else about a person.

On “Morning Edition,” Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of Africana studies, discusses Quock Walker, an enslaved man in Massachusetts who sued to gain his freedom and ultimately freed others.

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