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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
How people act and react to the world around them – through their spatial thinking – shapes how they think, Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky says.
BY MELISSA DE WITTE
Actions not only speak louder than words, they also happen first and faster, Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky says....
By Alison Gopnik
Do our culture and language shape the way we think? A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Caren Walker at the University of California at San Diego, Alex Carstensen at Stanford and their colleagues, tried to answer this ancient question. The...
by Stanford News Service on July 5, 2019 3:05 pm
Eleven Stanford faculty members have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and engineers...
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research...
