This is the second in a two-part series from Albert Bandura, a pioneer in the field of social cognitive theory and the most cited living psychologist in the world. Read the first piece on self…
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By Neil Genzlinger July 19, 2020 In a long career at Stanford, he was known for elegant experiments that explored how we learn and how we remember. Gordon H. Bower, a research psychologist who spent…
Across five decades of psychological research, publications that highlight race are rare, and when race is discussed, it is authored mostly and edited almost entirely by white scholars, according to a…
A leader in the field of psychology, Bower was known both for the breadth of his research and his mentoring of graduate students. BY SANDRA FEDER Gordon Bower, one of the nation’s most influential…
People will have to learn to smile with their eyes and voices, and to read the eyes and voices of others more, Stanford scholar Jeanne Tsai says. BY MELISSA DE WITTE With faces covered to help reduce…
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has appointed a committee and asks that it make its recommendations by the beginning of the fall quarter in September. BY CHRIS PEACOCK Stanford has accelerated the…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order this month requiring health care workers in the state to undergo implicit bias training to obtain or renew their medical licenses. Over the…
Professor of economics Ran Abramitzky has been named the new senior associate dean of the social sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences, succeeding Ellen Markman. Professor of economics Ran…
JOHANNES EICHSTAEDT When people are unhappy, they look to elect people who promise to change the system. How do people decide whom they vote for? A traditional view holds that people vote according to…
Event Details: On September 17, 2020, the Longevity Project, in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity, will bring together some of the leading thinkers from around the world for a…