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Lab life at Stanford during the COVID-19 pandemic
After a devastating and demanding several months, research at Stanford remains limited but could offer glimpses into how lab life might operate in the future. Read to learn how several labs, including the Department of Psychology's social learning lab, are responding to the pandemic.
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Most popular American movies depict an unhealthy diet, Stanford researchers find
Stanford researchers Brad Turnwald, Isaac Handley-Miner, Natalie Samuels, Hazel Markus, and Alia Crum examined the 250 top-grossing American movies from 1994-2018 and found the on-screen foods and beverages largely failed U.S. government nutrition recommendations and U.K. youth advertising standards. The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that depicting unhealthy consumption in media is a sociocultural problem that extends beyond advertisements and branded product placements.
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Saying that "girls are as good as boys" may teach gender stereotypes
In a paper published in Developmental Psychology, Eleanor Chestnut (PhD '17), Marianna Zhang (current PhD student), and Ellen Markman found that statements of apparent gender equality, such as "girls are as good as boys", may in fact backfire and teach gender stereotypes.
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Want to learn more about your sleep? Join the Stanford Home Sleep Study!
The Stanford Home Sleep Center, in the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab, is seeking participants for a remote research project studying the relationship between sleep and well-being. Receive a personalized sleep report, earn up to $80 via Amazon gift card, and contribute to a better understanding of how to improve sleep and quality of life.
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- "Sex differences in pubertal associations with fronto-accumbal white matter morphometry: Implications for understanding sensitivity to reward and punishment" by Rajpreet Chahal, Kristen Delevich, Jaclyn S. Kirshenbaum, Lauren R. Borchers, Tiffany C. Ho, Ian H. Gotlib, published in Feb 2021 in NeuroImage.
- "Higher Executive Control Network Coherence Buffers Against Puberty-Related Increases in Internalizing Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Rajpreet Chahal, Jacyln S. Kirshenbaum, Jonas G. Miller, Tiffany C. Ho, Ian H. Gotlib, published in January 2021 in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
- "Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking" by Kevin P. Madore, Anna M. Khazenzon, Cameron W. Backes, Jiefeng Jiang, Melina R. Uncapher, Anthony M. Norcia, Anthony D. Wagner, published in Nov 2020 in Nature.
- "(Un)Happiness and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections" by Johannes C. Eichstaedt, George Ward, Lyle H. Ungar, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, published in July 2020 in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes.
- "Naturalistic Language Input is Associated with Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Infancy" by Lucy S. King, M. Catalina Camacho, David F. Montez, Kathryn L. Humphreys, and Ian H. Gotlib, published in Nov 2020 in Journal of Neuroscience.
- "Stress, Sleep, and Coping Self-Efficacy in Adolescents" by Maia Ten Brink, Hae Yeon Lee, Rachel Manber, David S. Yeager, James J. Gross, published in Nov 2020 in Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
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