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By Neil Genzlinger
July 19, 2020
In a long career at Stanford, he was known for elegant experiments that explored how we learn and how we remember.
Gordon H. Bower, a research psychologist who spent more than half a century studying how the brain learns and remembers, as well...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order this month requiring health care workers in the state to undergo implicit bias training to obtain or renew their medical licenses.
Over the years, we've been learning how implicit bias — one's unconscious attitudes or beliefs about a group of...
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has appointed a committee and asks that it make its recommendations by the beginning of the fall quarter in September.
BY CHRIS PEACOCK
Stanford has accelerated the timeline for considering requests to rename Jordan Hall and remove a statue above its entrance....
People will have to learn to smile with their eyes and voices, and to read the eyes and voices of others more, Stanford scholar Jeanne Tsai says.
BY MELISSA DE WITTE
With faces covered to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, some of the facial cues that people rely on to connect with others – such...
A leader in the field of psychology, Bower was known both for the breadth of his research and his mentoring of graduate students.
BY SANDRA FEDER
Gordon Bower, one of the nation’s most influential experimental psychologists and learning theorists of the 20th century, died June 17. He was 87.
