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March 11, 2020
Male scientists are more likely than their women colleagues to use words like “excellent” to describe their own work — which may impact how it’s received.
March 10, 2020
The wife of Yale Professor Richard Ruggles, Nancy co-authored nearly all of his work despite receiving almost none of the credit she was due — until now.
March 9, 2020
A new study by Yale’s Margaret L. Traeger and partners at the Institute for Network Science examines how robots influence people’s behavior in group settings.
March 6, 2020
A study of close to 15,000 people has found that when managers acknowledge employees’ emotions — and manage their own feelings — the entire workplace benefits.
March 3, 2020
In a study of farmers in Malawi, Yale’s Mushfiq Mobarak found that women’s performance on certain tasks was hindered by how other people received their work.
February 27, 2020
Yale political scientist Alan Gerber has been named the next director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. His post will begin July 1.
February 21, 2020
Goldberg, the Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale and outgoing chief economist of the World Bank Group, discusses world politics and global poverty.