Barbara Tversky Receives Kampé de Fériet Award June 24, 2020 TAGS: AWARDS & HONORS COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MEMORY SPATIAL PERCEPTION APS Past President Barbara Tversky (Teachers College, Columbia…
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As lockdown life persists, cyber get-togethers are getting more creative, increasing chances they’re here to stay. By Jordyn Holman April 21, 2020, 3:00 AM PDT Like millions of small businesses…
Stanford scholar Johannes Eichstaedt has built an algorithm that can provide, in principle, a real-time indication of community well-being by analyzing social media posts. BY MELISSA DE WITTE Social…
by Charity Ferreira Being a psychologist studying empathy is like being a climate scientist studying the polar ice, Jamil Zaki writes in his 2019 book, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a…
The recent acts of violence perpetrated against Black communities has led many to question racism and racial injustice embedded in American society. Stanford scholars have been looking for ways to…
This work marks the beginning of an effort to better understand memory and memory loss in older adults using advanced imaging and data analysis techniques. BY TAYLOR KUBOTA Even among healthy people…
By Tara Parker-Pope A Canadian woman was so desperate to hug her mother during quarantine that she created a “hug glove” using a clear tarp with sleeves so the women could hug through the plastic. A…
'OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?' to Premiere Across Discovery Networks | HGTV News | HGTV In response to the continuing civil unrest in America following the tragic murder of George Floyd…
Of the seven factors the researchers identified, perhaps the most insidious is passivism or passive racism, which includes an apathy toward systems of racial advantage or denial that those systems…
Gordon Howard Bower Dec. 30, 1932-June 17, 2020 Stanford, California Gordon H. Bower—who won the National Medal of Science for experimental psychology research at Stanford University—died peacefully…