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Natalia Vélez, a psychology PhD student who began sketching during academic talks a year ago, has earned the nickname “The Science Sketcher” for her work, which will begin appearing regularly in the Stanford Psychology Newsletter in the 2019-20 academic year.
BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN
In high...
Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users.
By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ
Why haven’t we stopped climate change? We’re not wired to empathize with our descendants.
In their evaluations of high-performing venture capital funds, professional investors rate white-led teams more favorably than they do black-led teams with identical credentials, a new Stanford study finds.
BY MELISSA DE WITTE
When a black-led venture capital firm has an impressive track...
A new national study, co-authored by Stanford scholars, shows that high school students who took a course to cultivate positive beliefs about learning earned higher grades and took more challenging classes.
BY MELISSA DE WITTE
