Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey
Peter Saloveyis an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey is one of the early pioneers and leading researchers in emotional intelligence...
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I don't think it is likely we are going to suggest a major overhaul in policy, ... But I do think we are going to focus on ways to help create a culture at Yale in which students can feel that they can have a good time with friends that doesn't necessarily involve heavy drinking.
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I think we are very interested in seeing more students from across the income spectrum come to Yale and see Yale as accessible to them,
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Our primary function is teaching and research, and there's no good reason not to do that,
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I think we want to present a Yale College education as accessible as possible to as broad a range of students as we can throughout the world, ... I think Jeff, through his own commitment to diversity, as well as through his own family experiences and experiences at Yale, is someone who will relate very well to all kinds of potential applicants.
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We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.
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At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.
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We are making sure that these are students -- based on their past work -- who are capable of doing work in Yale College.