Social Sciences

Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba (Yale University Press)

“The human mind is built for maintaining social relationships, even when partners sometimes behave badly,” says Yale researcher Molly Crockett.

The new internships are part of a wider partnership between Yale and the Smithsonian meant to prepare future generations of researchers and scholars.

Americans on both the left and right have come to view the Constitution as a cudgel with which to attack their enemies.

In Congress before the Civil War, partisan disagreement often featured Bowie knives and pistols.

Douglas Rogers will serve as the inaugural faculty director of the Yale MacMillan Center’s Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

By reapplying the classical work of David Ricardo, Yale’s Samuel Kortum and his collaborator Jonathan Eaton have revolutionized 21st-century economics.

SOM professor Barbara Biasi, whose work focuses on education, discusses recent teacher strikes and the wider implications of how we compensate teachers.

The so-called “liking gap” can hinder our ability to develop new relationships, according to a new study by Yale psychologists.

The new program is designed to answer questions of how best to scale up promising anti-poverty programs so that they can benefit the greatest number of people.