Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren’t pretty. By Casey Schwartz Oct. 12, 2020 Which was the saddest day of them all? This is the question you may…
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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…
Older people report better emotional well-being than younger people – even during a pandemic that is placing them at greater risk than any other age group. BY MELISSA DE WITTE Despite being most at…
Stanford researchers are connecting the dots between attention and memory to explain why we remember certain things and forget others, why some people remember better than others and how media…
People confronted with many options might freeze up and choose none. Launching dozens of vaccine development projects made perfect sense early in the Covid-19 pandemic, because it increased the…
The Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty members for their extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN Eight faculty…
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…
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…
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…
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…