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July 9, 2018
When uncertain about the effects of their actions, people tend to act more selfishly — unless the uncertainty extends to how their actions impact other people.
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July 9, 2018
A small party-line difference in scores on an analytical thinking survey gets bigger when factoring in political ideology and the 2016 Presidential vote.
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July 5, 2018
Karl Barber, who completed his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale in 2018, will be one of the first Schmidt Science Fellows.
Professor Claire Bowern and Dean Lynn Cooley with two other faculty members.
July 3, 2018
Professor Claire Bowern received the Graduate School of Arts and Science’s (GSAS) Graduate Mentor Award during Yale University’s Commencement Convocation ceremony in May
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July 2, 2018
Historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf and David Blight (Class of 1954 Professor of American History) talked about the Declaration of Independence and equality at a forum...
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July 2, 2018
To fully understand biodiversity and how it is changing, you need to observe changes at local, regional, and continental scales, according to a new study.
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June 27, 2018
Physicist Larry Gladney of the University of Pennsylvania will lead the effort to build a more intellectually, socially, and culturally diverse faculty.