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Published in FY20

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

Published in FY20
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

Mike Frank was keen

to hear his daughter’s first word. In Madeline’s babbling, he’d already

Published in FY20

 

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

How people

Published in FY20

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

Published in FY20

By Jamil Zaki 

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Ebenezer Baptist Church, Feb. 4, 1968

Two months before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. described a mistake that wastes many lives