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In a Split Second, Clothes Make the Man More Competent in the Eyes of Others

People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study…

Robertson Hall

Funding Available for Innovative Education Projects and Programs

A fund offered through Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will support creative,…

Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development

Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released “Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development” on May 29.

WWS Reacts: Restricting Abortions Across America

Reproductive rights are now front and center in the 2020 campaign, as a number of states recently have tried to restrict or regulate…

Inequality Gap Grew Before the Great Recession and After, Study Finds

The Great Recession hit Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum, with some still working to recover economically. Yet, the drivers…

Racial Bias Associated with Disparities in Disciplinary Action Across U.S. Schools

Studies have shown that black students are subjected to higher disciplinary rates than whites, resulting in a number of negative life…

Reports of Corruption Increase in Nigeria After Film and Text Campaign

Princeton Researchers Awarded Funding for Innovative Education Research Projects

A group of researchers at Princeton University will receive funding to work on innovative, cross-disciplinary education research projects…

Project to Collect Real Portraits of American Life

Today, only half of children grow up to earn more than their parents, as opportunities for upward mobility continue to decline. Meanwhile…

No Laboratory Needed: The Person Project Mines Social Science Data with Secure Online Quizzes

Understanding the human psyche is complex, for ordinary people and scientists alike. Now, researchers at Princeton University have…

Currie Wins Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

Tilghman Joins National Panel Examining Future of Higher Education

Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University, emeritus, and professor of molecular biology and public affairs, has been named…

Quiet ‘Epidemic’ Has Killed Half a Million Middle-Aged White Americans

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past…

Selective Media Coverage May Cause Us to Forget Certain Health Facts

The health facts presented by mass media in the midst of a disease outbreak are likely to influence what we remember about the disease,…

Rogerson Wins R.K. Cho Economics Prize

Richard Rogerson, the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson…

WooCast: Behind the Scenes of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum

Resolving epidemics like the Ebola crisis requires a multidisciplinary approach –involving not only public health and medical knowledge…

Economist Currie Investigates the Building Blocks of Children's Success

Trained as a labor economist at Princeton, Janet Currie wrote her dissertation on strikes and arbitration.

Inequality Grows as Economies Develop, Regardless of Technology

While technological progress favoring skilled workers is one of the main drivers behind inequality in America, the chasm between the rich…

Class Snapshot: “Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education in South Africa”

Class: “Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education in South Africa”Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Q&A: Macedo Looks Ahead to the Future of Marriage

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the right of same-sex couples to marry, even as people on both ends of the political…

Hypersegregated Cities Face Tough Road to Change

Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, share more than being the sites of racial strife over the past year. Both are part of…

A Deadly Shadow: Measles May Weaken Immune System Up to Three Years

The measles virus can cause serious disease in children by temporarily suppressing their immune systems. This vulnerability was…

Preventing and Treating Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect – Not Foster Care Placement – May Improve Safety and Wellbeing, New Brookings-Princeton Paper Finds

Each year, an estimated 680,000 children are reported as victims of parental abuse and neglect in the U.S.

Gift Establishes Kahneman and Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton

A $10 million gift will create the Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton,…

Tienda Elected to National Academy of Education

Marta Tienda, the Maurice P.