Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion annually, which is equivalent to the average economic recession, according to a new study co-authored by Yale economist Aleh Tsyvinski.
The first-of-its-kind study integrates psychiatric scholarship with...
Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world.
His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired Prum to read aesthetic philosophers to get a better...
In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in cultural beliefs about masculinity and femininity.
A new...
In the mid-1960s, James M. Gustafson, a professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, mentored a cohort of remarkably talented students. Many of those young scholars, united by their admiration for Gustafson, would help found the field of...
Over the last two decades, the U.S. hospital sector has seen nearly 2,000 mergers and significant consolidation. During this period, prices for hospital services have grown markedly faster than inflation, driving up health spending and insurance premiums...
The automation of U.S. manufacturing — robots replacing people on factory floors — is fueling rising mortality rate among America’s working-age adults, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.
The study,...
A study by researchers at Yale and Stanford universities reveals a significant increase in lawsuits over unpaid hospital bills in Wisconsin, providing further evidence of the financial hardship that the U.S. health care system is causing patients.
The...
Pro-vaccine messages that appeal to community spirit or evoke the sense of embarrassment people would feel if they were to spread COVID-19 to friends and family are effective in persuading individuals to get vaccinated and encourage others to do the same...
The increased use of face coverings as a defense against COVID-19 creates social norms that encourage more people to mask up in public, according to a new study co-authored by Yale researchers.
The study, published Oct. 11 in the journal PLOS One, is...
A new study by researchers at the Yale Child Study Center demonstrates that puppets can attract and hold the attention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), raising the potential for developing more engaging therapies that strengthen social...