Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Caltech Home > HSS Homepage

choice sketch

Social Scientists Reveal New Insights Into How
Our Brains Cope With Choice Overload

New Faces GRaphic

Click here to read the latest New Faces publication

Same man show with three different face-widths (7% skinnier, original, 7% wider)

Caltech Researchers Show that Politicians with
Wider Faces Are Perceived as More Corrupt

Cindy Weinstein

Weinstein to Tackle Alzheimer's Disease in New Book that Combines Memoir, Literature, and Science

gibilisco

Democracies More Prone to Start Wars
– Except When They're Not

Commencement 2018

Three Cheers for the Class of 2018!

Frankenstein

Caltech, The Huntington to Celebrate Frankenstein's 200th Anniversary with Conference

Agranov Watson lecture

Marina Agranov Discusses Negotiations and Group Decisions at Watson Lecture

Einstein writing at a desk

Caltech and Princeton University Press
Release 15th Volume of Einstein Papers

HWC - Christina Birch and student

Hixon Writing Center Helps Students
Become Effective STEM Writers

Oct 17 | 4 PM in Baxter B125 Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Emanuel Vespa, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Oct 17 | 7 PM in Baxter Lecture Hall James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program

Dan Falk, journalist, author, and broadcaster

Humanities

Baxter Lobby with Students

Social Sciences

Undergraduate Studies

Graduate Studies (including
2018-19 Job Market Candidates)