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SPARQ sends out periodic newsletters featuring our latest work and other updates. Check out our December 2023 year-end newsletter. If you would like to receive occasional email updates from SPARQ, subscribe here.
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Biased Book Tour Begins!
Jennifer Eberhardt kicks off her book tour for Biased this week. Here is a wrap up of early media highlights including features in the LA Times, CBS This Morning, and Forbes.
March 25, 2019
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Keeping Nextdoor Neighborly
SPARQ Faculty Affiliates joined a team from Nextdoor for a Research Clinic to discuss strategies for keeping conversations on the platform neighborly.
December 04, 2018
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SPARQtools Expands With Toolkits for Stressing Less and Eating Better
Edgy Veggies & Rethinking Stress, which aim to promote healthier eating and improve people's management of stress, are two new toolkits from SPARQtools that focus on health issues.
October 03, 2018
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Making Universities More Inclusive is Hard. These 13 Resources Make It Easier.
SPARQ's diversity and inclusion collection of toolkits is just one resource among many that aim to help higher education institutions and other organizations become more inclusive.
August 23, 2018
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Stanford SPARQ Expands SPARQtools With Toolkit for Measuring Mobility From Poverty
With the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty and the Urban Institute, Stanford SPARQ has created a toolkit to help program managers, evaluators, and practitioners.
June 27, 2018
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Stanford SPARQ Launches SPARQtools Science-powered Recipes for Tackling Disparities
The online toolkits from Stanford SPARQ distill scientific research into step-by-step instructions and materials for driving psychological, behavioral, and societal change.
May 10, 2018
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Ten Organizations Using Psychology to Change the World
SPARQ released 10 toolkits that use psychology to help people take on the world's problems. The organization isn't alone when it comes to turning science into solutions.
May 08, 2018
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When Presenting Stats About Racial Disparities, Account for Context
In a new paper, SPARQ director Jennifer Eberhardt and research scientist Rebecca Hetey warn that sharing facts about inequality may make it worse unless you include context.
May 07, 2018
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Intern With SPARQ This Summer
As a SPARQ summer intern, you will gain valuable research experience while exploring how to use psychological science for social change.
May 02, 2018
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Getting Americans Out of Poverty Requires More Than Money
In collaboration with the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty and the Urban Institute, SPARQ assembles a set of measures to holistically assess people’s passage out of poverty.
April 20, 2018
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In the News: Scholars Show Racism's Role in the Poverty Trap
New Stanford research in The New York Times makes it harder than ever for the U.S. to avoid confronting the role of racism in economic inequality, particularly for Black men.
March 23, 2018
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Helping People With Criminal Convictions Get Jobs: Research Clinic With the Center for Employment Opportunities
In the past 10 years, the Center for Employment Opportunities has placed more than 25,000 formerly incarcerated people into full-time jobs around the country.
March 23, 2018
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SPARQ Seeks a Lab Manager
SPARQ is hiring a lab manager to work with staff, faculty affiliates, and practitioner-partners on social psychological research that creates knowledge and solves social problems.
March 06, 2018
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SPARQ Health Director Crum Discusses Mindsets at the World Economic Forum (Video)
SPARQ's director of health, Alia Crum, explained the origins of mindsets and their effect on people's physical health in her talk.
February 28, 2018
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SPARQ Director Eberhardt and Affiliates Receive PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for Study on Police Language During Traffic Stops
SPARQ team members and collaborators were recognized by the journal PNAS for their paper, "Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect."
February 28, 2018
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SPARQ 2017 Year in Review
It has been a busy year for SPARQ’s network of scientists, practitioners, staff, and students.
December 22, 2017
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Discuss Your Differences Without Indigestion This Holiday Season
Worried about spending the holidays with people whose politics swerve far from your own? Use the CLARIFY method to deal with the cultural divides at home.
November 21, 2017
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How Social Psychology Can Help UBI Proponents and Other Policy Advocates
Insights from a conversation between Stanford social psychologists and advocates of universal basic income (UBI).
November 14, 2017
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Bias in the Financial Services Industry
In early 2017, SPARQ and Illumen Capital began a research project to examine the lack of gender and racial diversity in the financial services industry.
October 10, 2017
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What Social Science Says About Mass Killings
Research on morality, guns, and income inequality may help explain the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
October 02, 2017