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February 3, 2011
Tamar Gendler: Creative Crafts Professor Gendler’s “secret life” outside of Yale is a family affair. With her husband and sons as collaborators, she creates “elaborate...
June 18, 2010
In a famous investigation of disgust, the psychologist Paul Rozin asked people to eat fudge that had been moulded to look like dog faeces, and drink soup from a brand new,...
It’s back to school for Tamar Gendler ’87, who is taking nine Yale courses this semester. A fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is paying for her to further her training outside her field. Photo by Grace Patuwo.
October 19, 2009
Tamar Gendler ’87 likes to save paper. So she prints her problem sets for PSYC 518, “Multivariate Statistics,” on the back of discarded pages from the rough draft of a book...
October 31, 2008
How do we make moral decisions, pick friends and lovers, and develop empathy for the feelings of others? An international group of renowned scientists who study the behavior...
March 2, 2006
The addition of five new professors to Yale’s Philosophy Department next fall is the latest step in a decade-long rebuilding process for the program, a project that has had...

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