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Our brains can predict the popularity of online videos, without us even knowing it.
BY TAYLOR KUBOTA
When Stanford University neuroscientist Brian Knutson tracked his smartphone usage, he was shocked to learn that he spent twice as much time on his phone as he had anticipated.
A Stanford scholar helps the world analyze how children acquire language differently—and just how much they have in common.
By Deni Ellis Béchard
MARCH 2020
Stanford psychologist Steven O. Roberts found that the characteristics U.S. Christians assign to God – e.g., male, female, black, white, old, young – are the same identities they attribute to a boss.
BY MELISSA DE WITTE
Join us in congratulating Michael C. Frank!
Michael C. Frank, Stanford University, will receive a 2020 Troland Research Award.
A groundbreaking cognitive scientist, Frank has made vital contributions to our understanding of how children use social context to acquire language. His research employs...
By Jamil Zaki
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church, Feb. 4, 1968
