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…
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New Stanford research shows that sentences that frame one gender as the standard for the other can unintentionally perpetuate biases. By Alex Shashkevich While saying “girls are as good as boys at…
The Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research recognizes theses written in the social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. The Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and…
The belief that interests arrive fully formed and must simply be “found” can lead people to limit their pursuit of new fields and give up when they encounter challenges, according to a new Stanford…
Stanford scholar Lin Bian found that in times of plenty infants expect fair distribution of goodies like toys or cookies. But when resources are scarce, infants expect people to favor their own social…
Stanford seniors LAUREN KILLINGSWORTH and STEVE RATHJE and MONICA KULLAR, a clinical neuroscience research coordinator, have won 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the…
A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how…
Researchers found that neglected children in Romania who were matched with foster care families earlier in life are more likely to be just as resilient and healthy as their peers later in life…
APS Rising Stars The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the…
Most people don’t have answers to the big questions about consciousness or the meaning of life, but they do have a way of thinking about and categorizing mental life. It comes down to three things –…