When retail investors suddenly pay more attention to the stock market, returns over the next week tend to fall. But when institutional investors start paying more attention, returns over the next week tend to rise — especially when big news is about to come out, according to new research from University of Notre Dame finance professor Zhi Da.

Study explores how women in post-revolutionary Iran used audacious acts of dance in public spaces and on social media to resist unjust gender-based laws and cultural norms that disenfranchise women. The author explores the evolution of the "Woman, Life, Freedom Movement" as a reponse to oppression imposed by the Islamic state and how Iranian women's embodied protests were replicated by women around the globe.

New research shows our pragmatic language abilities — which allow us to understand nonliteral expressions like sarcasm or metaphors — can be grouped together based on what types of inferences they require. MIT researchers identified three clusters of pragmatic skills based on understanding social conventions and rules, how the physical world works, and differences in tone.