By Katharine Gammon Illustrations by Viktor Koen In courtrooms around the country, judges are embracing 24/7 Sobriety, a science-backed approach to managing people addicted to alcohol who repeatedly…
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We all know it’s harder to ID people of different races, but our bias goes so much deeper The Asian women were easy targets. They were a group the robbers predicted would not resist: middle-aged…
Stanford psychologists find that brief exercises early in middle school can improve students’ relationships with their teachers, increase their sense of belonging and reduce teachers’ reports of…
Book Review NONFICTION By Neil Gross BIASED Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do By Jennifer L. Eberhardt Last winter a cellphone video of an encounter between a…
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series. BY KER THAN If your childhood…
All members of the Stanford community are invited to attend Multicultural Springfest, an annual celebration of the diversity and dedication of the university’s staff. BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN Every…
Growth mindsets lead to developing current passions; fixed mentalities lead to searching for new ones Stanford researchers Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton, among other scholars, recently published…
A job search can stir plenty of anxious emotions, and how those emotions surface during a job interview could make or break your chances of getting hired. Psychology researchers at Stanford University…
A lab in the Psychology Department at Stanford has created a set of free toolkits to help people resolve complicated issues, including resources to help people deal with disagreements. By Melissa De…
Under faculty guidance, psych majors participate in academic work Stanford psychology majors are collaborating with department faculty in research projects on topics including empathy’s role in the…