Stanford Psychology Department

Stanford has been the leading psychology department among American universities for decades. Using state of the art tools, our faculty enhance our teaching mission with interdisciplinary collaboration and a wide range of research interests, including: vision and perception; memory; language and cognition; emotion; and culture and society.

Recent News

	"If at First You Don't Succeed....", Bandura in The Wall Street Journal

	Boroditsky on "When Language Can Hold the Answer"

	Bob Dougherty from the Wandell Lab on KQED

	The Center for the Mind, Brain and Computation Opens

	Wagner and Kuhl say that forgetting helps you remember the important stuff

	Samanez Larkin, Carstensen and Knutson find fear of loss depends on age

Awards


	Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect" received the APA's William James Book award for 2007

	Brian Wandell has been awarded the 2008 Tillyer Award from the Optical Society of America.

	Hazel Markus received the 2008 APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award

	Division 49 of the APA named Phil Zimbardo the Group Psychologist of the Year for 2007

	Gordon Bower was named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Nation's highest honor for science.

	Lee Ross will be awarded the 2008 Distinguished Scientist Development Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

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