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Students need more than just technical knowledge to succeed in the long term. They require creativity, problem-solving skills, resilience, collaboration, and emotional intelligence. Schools can help.

The U.S. Open is notorious for provoking anger in golfers who feel the course setup is unfair, leading to emotional outbursts that often hurt rather than help performance. In an interview with Golf Digest, expert Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, emphasizes that recognizing and managing anger, rather than being controlled by it, is crucial to maintaining focus and success under pressure.

Small creative challenges—like working with fewer words or unfamiliar tools—can boost energy, openness, and mental agility. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., author of the new book The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action, explains that setting limits sparks fresh thinking. Read more in the New York Times Creativity Challenge.

YCSC Senior Research Scientist Zorana Ivcevic Pringle is quoted in this Forbes article addressing how business leaders should adopt concepts like problem finding, rather than problem solving, to help teams be more creative.

In her new book, The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action, Yale senior researcher Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle reveals that creativity is not about innate talent—it is about the choices we make to bring ideas to life.

Approximately 70 members of the Yale Child Study Center community recently gathered together in a hybrid format—both in-person and by Zoom—to celebrate 46 YCSC faculty and staff members being honored for their respective years of service at Yale University, from five up to 40 years.

Bullying jeopardizes students' well-being, learning, and future. School leaders can act—emotionally intelligent environments help prevent and address its root causes.

Yale researchers will present new research on creativity, arts engagement, and emotional intelligence at the 2025 American Psychological Association Division 10 Conference in New Haven, CT.

Dr. Stephen Popp and Dr. Diego Estrada presented The John Cooper School’s well-being approach at the NAIS Conference, highlighting its use of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence's RULER approach to foster student resilience and emotional intelligence.