The Stanford Daily2d
Transfer students share their ‘Why Stanford?’ stories
The newest Stanford transfer class comes from many walks of life, and their answer to "Why Stanford?" vary from practical to ...
University of Arkansas7d
Engineering Alumnus to Speak on AI, Autonomous Vehicles and the Path From Arkansas to Stanford
In celebration of International Engineering Week, alumnus Nicholas Drake Broadbent will present his talk "Over the Hill, to The Farm, and Beyond" at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Bell Engineering room ...
Yale Environment 3607d
Philipp Strack named the Cowles Foundation Professor of Economics
Strack, a scholar of microeconomic theory who has achieved key advances in the field of game-theory and behavioral economics, ...
The New Yorker12d
The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris
At the end of July, shortly after Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for President, The Economist described her ...
The Stanford Daily22d
Stanford community split over California ban on legacy admissions preferences
Stanford community members remain divided over California’s recent ban on legacy preferences in admissions, citing mental health impacts, alumni donations and admissions equity in their support ...
The New York Times22d
Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies
By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos ...
The Economist22d
The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)
The economics of signalling was best articulated by Michael Spence, a Nobel prizewinner. In 1973 Mr Spence developed a simple model of how the labour market works. There are two kinds of job ...
University of New Haven22d
Economics Professor Recognized Among Top 2% Scientists Worldwide
Mehmet Balcilar, Ph.D., is one of several University of New Haven faculty members included in the Stanford ...
Rolling Stone24d
New Docuseries Examines the Infamous ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’
The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...
El País in English24d
James Robinson, Nobel laureate in Economics: ‘You cannot achieve an inclusive economy with an authoritarian regime’
Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 2024, James Robinson, in a picture from the University of Chicago.NANCY WONG / HANDOUT (EFE) More than four decades later, Robinson, along with Acemoglu and Simon ...
Los Angeles Times25d
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, architect of the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment,’ is dead at 91
“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote a young psychology professor at Stanford University in 1971.
WFLA News Channel 825d
Stanford psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” dies at 91
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment ...