Social Sciences

In close presidential elections, the probability of an inversion—the popular vote going one way and the electoral vote another—is higher than realized before.

Soumaya Keynes will present a talk titled “War Correspondence: Covering the Trump Administration’s Trade Policy” on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 4:30 p.m.

Author Harriet A. Washington spoke on “The Brain Thieves: Heavy Metals, Pathogens and Other Enemies of Cognition,” at the Yale Child Study Center on Sept. 5.

A study of community policing in New Haven has found that positive, non-punitive contact with the public markedly improves attitudes and trust towards police.

Children in Amazonian Ecuador are more risk-averse than their peers in more industrialized countries, a new Yale study finds.

Attempts to ban self-checkout are in line with previous controversies over ATMs and self-serve gas.

Based on her popular “Psychology and the Good Life” course, Yale psychologist Laurie Santos will host The Happiness Lab podcast.

Daniel Markovits, the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law (Penguin)

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.

Shapiro discusses the impact and legacy of the conference that established the U.S.-dominated economic system of the postwar global community.