Research

STHM faculty member Lu Lu pictured giving a tip.
From reward to requirement: The new tipping culture
New study finds pre-service tipping often triggers discomfort, affecting customer trust and satisfaction.
August 14, 2025
Jonathan Larsen outside of City Hall
Temple teams up with Pennsylvania state universities to track opioid settlement spending
Temple, Penn State, Pitt and the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust have created a website showing opioid settlement spending.
August 12, 2025
Magee stands in the atrium of Boyer College of Music and Dance
Temple researcher uses music to fill gaps in consciousness assessment of children with brain injuries
Boyer Professor Wendy Magee has developed a music-based consciousness assessment in children with neurological injuries.
July 24, 2025
Vlad Ayzenberg next to a baby scan
New research reveals superior visual perception in humans compared with AI
A recent study from Temple Assistant Professor Vlad Ayzenberg shows preschoolers’ robust visual perceptual abilities compared with sophisticated AI.
Subodha Kumar pictured.
Want to increase in-person sales? Offer a flat shipping rate online
A new study from Fox School of Business faculty member Subodha Kumar details how online shipping rates drive in-person sales
Study questions whether chatbots are more judgmental than their human counterparts
Professor Sezgin Ayabakan researched how perceptions significantly influence patients’ acceptance of chatbots for mental health screening.
The American flag outside near trees
Honoring the fallen: Temple partners with the DPAA in search of missing military members
Temple and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) have partnered to find information about missing U.S. military service members.
graduate student standing on stage with a mic
Doctoral students explain their dissertations in three-minute talks
The annual 3MT competition puts graduate student research in the spotlight.
Gary Scales standing outside of a Sunoco gas station in Philadelphia
Fueling fascination: History alum examines how our senses inform gasoline retail
Gary Scales, CLA ’24, analyzes the sensory history of U.S. gas stations in the 1900s in his thesis Gasoline Retail and the Making of Neurocapitalism.
Jonathan Howe pictured.
New book illustrates the unspoken challenges faced by Black male college athletes
Black college athletes often alter their self-presentation, according to a new book from Temple Assistant Professor Jonathan Howe
Image of Mehdi Khanzadeh holding a sample of carbonatable concrete.
Engineering professor’s breakthrough may lead to more sustainable concrete
New research from Mehdi Khanzadeh may help the concrete industry move toward a more sustainable future.
A graphic of social media marketing.
Micro-influencers have a major influence on Generation Z
A new study from Fox School of Business associate professor Jay Sinha outlines how micro-influencers can be used to target Generation Z through marketing is the utilization of micro-influencers.
Image of small dark-colored dog with a couch in the background.
New research shows a pet’s cuteness can significantly influence intentions to book a home-sharing service like Airbnb
STHM professor’s research explores the positive effect of a pet’s cuteness on consumer intentions to reserve home-sharing services.