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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 criminal justice system, cystic fibrosis and cross

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 Witte

Tackling tough societal problems requires

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 found that job applicants who wanted to appear

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 “Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion

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 math” is meant as encouragement, it can unfortunately