Alan Abramowitz is the Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory, and a renowned expert on national politics and elections. His expertise includes election forecasting models, party realignment in the […]

Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz profiles citizen driven to action when their political party is not currently in power.

We are a moving toward an inclusive, empowered, engaged, interactive model of leadership where employees are encouraged to participate.

Collaboration between businesses isn’t rocket science. So why are so many companies missing the boat on creating alliances?

Companies have a much harder time being “customer-centric” than they are willing to admit.

A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor.

From falling prey to expectations to taking advice from friends, an understanding of our cognitive evolution helps us avoid misperceiving the limits of our knowledge.

Cognitive science reveals that policymakers should better understand how deeply our decisions are influenced by the presentation of choices.

From elaborate dancing displays to incredibly attractive armpits, the animal kingdom is full of colorful ways for males to woo mates.

There are morphological indications that we’re somewhere between a species meant to pair bond and our polygamist evolutionary relatives.

Our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, leave scientists puzzled over the origins of human sexual behavior.

Our ability to learn from others is crucial for the evolution of cumulative technologies, but often paralyzes our causal intuition.

Why our prejudices may be deeply ingrained in our evolutionary development.

Why Wall Street investors may think more like monkeys than we might have imagined.

Scientists had to consider how primates think in order to develop the right experiments to study them.

A conversation with the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University.

Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, thinks journalists need to better explain that the U.S. is partially responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan.

Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, offers some cautionary advice to the new commander of the Afghanistan War.

Alan Abramowitz is the Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory, and a renowned expert on national politics and elections. His expertise includes election forecasting models, party realignment in the […]

Can we shift away from the notion of a people-based tax in this era of outsourcing and offshoring?

A soup-to-nuts example of how a municipality can adopt sustainable practices in a way that’s ultimately beneficial for the bottom line.

Organizations need to reconsider all of the waste and energy consumption associated with their business—while still keeping profits in mind.

A conversation with the CEO of Hara Software.

It’s essential that several pieces click into place for the country to become the next big superpower, but its future looks bright.

The Legg Mason investment strategist has four key tips for starting investors.

What’s going on around you is influencing your daily decisions much more than you realize.

The best investors tend to be more reserved, more independent, and less attuned to what other people are doing.

When it comes to investing advice, media pundits tend to amplify both optimism and pessimism.

Everybody knows that outcomes are a combination of skill and luck, but we tend not to be very good at understanding the relative contributions of the two.

We like to follow a bullish or bearish trend. But the best investors sell when everyone’s buying, and buy when everyone’s selling.