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Professor Molly Crockett
September 25, 2019
Professor Molly Crockett and her co-authors have received the 2018 Best Social Cognition Paper Award by the Internatonal Social Cognition Network (ISCON).
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September 23, 2019
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, including professors Menachem Elimelech and Jaehong Kim, was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to address water security.
Atlantic Ocean
September 16, 2019
Shineng Hu of UC San Diego and Alexey Fedorov of Yale explore how global warming may alter global climate components such as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Shuar children in the Amazon
September 16, 2019
Children in Amazonian Ecuador are more risk-averse than their peers in more industrialized countries, a new Yale study finds.
Laurie Santos
September 12, 2019
Based on her popular “Psychology and the Good Life” course, Yale psychologist Laurie Santos will host The Happiness Lab podcast, which will launch Sept. 17.
Roderick Ferguson
September 10, 2019
Ferguson, who joined the Yale Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in July, is the author of work on feminism, race studies, and queer theory.
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September 9, 2019
While those with autism have difficulty gauging emotions and mental states of others, they do fine analyzing social behavior in general, a new Yale study shows.