Monkeys and the family dog can teach you a lot about yourself, according to Yale psychologist Laurie Santos.Laurie SantosAn evolutionary psychologist, Santos studies human behavior and the origins of the human mind by examining the behavior of other...
Horned helmets, furs, high-seas adventure, violence— this popular portrayal of the Vikings has endured for centuries and persists today. But how much is fact and how much fiction?Yale historian, Viking expert, and MacArthur Fellow Anders Winroth unmasks...
In awarding Yale’s George Daniel Mostow its 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics — one of the field’s premier global awards — the foundation offered this crisp assessment: “Few mathematicians,” it said, “can compete with the breadth, depth, and...
Chris Argyris, one of the world’s leading thinkers about organizational behavior and a member of the Yale faculty for 20 years, died on Nov. 16. He was 90 years old.Chris Argyris at the 2011 Yale Commencement ceremony where he was awarded an honorary...
Yale professor and alumna Cynthia Russett, a noted historian and pioneer in women’s history at Yale, died Dec. 5 in New Haven following a long struggle with multiple myeloma. She was 76 years old.Cynthia RussettThe Larnard Professor of History since 2002...