Bing Times Online Editions
Bing Times, October 2008
Excerpt: "We're All Pursuing Happiness. But What Kind? Food for Lifelong Thought at the 2008 Bing Distinguished Lecture (By Simon Firth, Writer and Bing Parent) Scholars have ruminated on what makes us happy and why since at least the time of Aristotle. But it's only been in the last two decades that psychologists have begun to study well-being and happiness, Stanford's Professor Jeanne Tsai..."
Bing Times, November 2007
Excerpt: "Lera Boroditsky: Language Influencing Thought (By Jamie Leach, Assistant Teacher) Lera Boroditsky believes the language children speak shapes how they think..."
Bing Times, September 2006
Excerpt: " Carstensen's research has found that emotional well-being actually improves with age, that older people are less lonely than college students and that older adults are in better mental health than younger adults, creating what Carstensen calls the 'paradox of aging'..."
Bing Times, November 2005
Excerpt: "Learning to delay gratification gives children an edge in coping with life's challenges -- an edge that lasts into adulthood. That was a key finding of a groundbreaking study that psychologist Walter Mischel conducted at Bing Nursery School. Mischel's so-called "marshmallow studies," which ran between 1968 and 1974, are some of the most celebrated in the history of child development. They are also among the longest-running in the history of social science..."
Bing Times, September 2004
Excerpt: "Research conducted at Bing since its inception nearly 40 years ago has made significant contributions to our understanding of child development. Early work includes the renowned delayed gratification studies by Walter Mischel in the '60s and Albert Bandura's work on observational learning in the '60s and '70s. Mark Lepper conducted experiments on intrinsic motivation in the '70s. More recently, John Flavell studied the theory of mind and Eve Clark and Ellen Markman examined young children's language acquisition..."