What's the difference between purpose and meaning? PSiX postdoc Daniel Yonas spent years studying moral psychology before he could answer that question — and his answer might change how you think abou...

The Purpose Science and Innovation Exchange has received a three-year, $3.5 million grant from the Bezos Family Foundation to launch two new fellowships aimed to help youth develop a sense of purpose.

PSiX researchers brought new findings from The Contribution Project to the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting in Toronto, sharing four presentations on how giving young people the ch...

The younger generation is looking for jobs that help others, but concerns over their finances and well-being are giving them pause.

When we launched our Design Teams this spring, we started with a simple yet deceptively complex question:

Anthony Burrow is the director of PSiX and is one of the foremost experts on purpose. He emphasizes that purpose is comething that is cultivated and that we should engage with purpose.

Like their emotions and self-esteem, teenagers’ sense of purpose fluctuates day to day, and those who experience it steadily – not just intensely – may benefit most.

Patrick Hill is director for PSiX’s Lab of Labs and his purpose research highlights that each person’s sense of purpose is unique. He also shares that purpose is accessible to everyone.

Sarah Espinel is director of research for PSiX and as someone new to purpose research, she has interesting thoughts on purpose and what we should know about it.

PSiX is higlighting the people that are working in purpose-focused spaces in a new series, “On Purpose.” In this first edition of On Purpose, you’ll meet Chrisopher Davis and understand what led him t...

In the book, Burrow, Hill, and other scholars touch on historical purpose learnings and current research through the lens of various disciplines.

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Dr. Anthony Burrow, Associate Professor of Psychology at Cornell University, joins Smerconish to discuss new research on the link between purpose and happiness.

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our cha...

The Purpose Science and innovation Exchange (PSiX) has hired its first researcher as it prepares to initiate work on its first research project, the National Youth Purpose Survey. Sarah Espinel co...

Job #AJO30463, WDR-000 Postdoctoral Associate, PSiX, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

She brings her expertise in parenting and youth development to PSiX.

The Purpose Science and Innovation Exchange, an initiative in the College of Human Ecology that launched in April to study the burgeoning field of purpose, has received a $3 million grant from the Joh...

Sense of purpose is a key construct explaining individual differences in health. However, much is still unclear about how sense of purpose and health affect eac...

The project - which has expanded to four SUNY schools and to younger kids nationally - has disbursed more than $500,000 to over 1,300 participants, bolstering young people's sense of agency, community...

A primary research focus for the new lab is understanding how young people develop a sense of purpose, and how it impacts their everyday experiences and contributes to their long-term development.