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A growing body of research has shown that people’s mindsets have measurable physical results.

People’s expectations to heal and the social context surrounding them, including their relationships with doctors, drive these placebo responses – where a

Children’s ability to understand basic grammar early in language development has long puzzled scientists, creating a debate over whether that skill is innate or learned with time and practice.

A new Stanford study, recently published in Psychological

Over the last century, Americans have added an unprecedented 30 years to their life spans. But most people still rarely think about or plan for the possibility of living until 80, 90, 100 years and beyond.

The Stanford Center on Longevity hopes to

More than 40 percent of Americans who made New Year's resolutions abandon them in a matter of weeks — a number that will rise to 90 percent. If you are among them, listen to some good advice from scholars at the Graduate School of Education who study

Dr. Michael Frank’s research is at the cross-section of experimental and computational approaches to development, with a focus on language and cognition. His general approach is to use large-n studies to examine specific cognitive and linguistic