Our panel discusses the benefits of gathering for an annual holiday meal. Traditions and rituals give us a sense of identity and closeness with those we love – and come with mental and physical health benefits too.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Thanksgiving
Displaying 61 - 64 of 64 articles
Economic theory suggests when demand goes up, so does the price, but oddly, it doesn’t for turkeys ahead of Thanksgiving.
Twenty-three percent of Americans say they are not religiously affiliated. Our core values may be encouraging us to reject organized religion.
The manic nature of Black Friday has often led shoppers to engage in fistfights and other misbehavior in their desperation to snatch up the last ultra-discounted television, computer or pair of pants…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
-
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
-
Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
-
Professor, North Dakota State University
-
Professor Emeritus, Psychology, The Ohio State University
-
Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
-
Professor of History, University of the Pacific
-
Assistant Professor, Social Studies Education, Penn State
-
Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University
-
Director of the Family Resiliency Center and Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Professor of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
-
Professor Emerita of Family Therapy, UMass Amherst
-
Research Fellow Ruhr University Bochum, University of Stavanger
-
Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
-
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
