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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 applying academic research findings to real-world...
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 calm and collected might be at a disadvantage,...
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 or Developing It?” The study suggests that...
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 backfire.
Barbara Tversky studied cognitive psychology at the University of Michigan. She held positions first at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then at Stanford, from 1978-2005 when she took early retirement. She is an active Emerita Professor of Psychology at Stanford and Professor of Psychology at...
