News & Media
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Why mindset is important when facing cancer
90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim
February 20, 2025
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Mindset Matters, but That’s Just Part of the Story
Should we be prescribing mindset just as we do medications and surgery?
January 24, 2025
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How the Mind Can Help the Body
Watching a series of short videos on mindset improved cancer patients’ quality of life
January 23, 2025
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Rethinking Osteoarthritis: How A Digital Mindset Intervention Is Transforming Patient Care
Published in Healthcare & Nursing, General & Internal Medicine, and Behavioural Sciences & Psychology
October 17, 2024
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How your mindset could affect your response to vaccines
In a recent study, researchers found that beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines may shape vaccination experiences, affecting side effects and even immune response.
August 23, 2024
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Stanford researchers develop and implement training to help medical care teams influence patient mindsets
are providers who received a new “Medicine Plus Mindset” training increasingly felt that patient mindsets are important in health care patient interaction.
February 22, 2024
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The Power of Your Exercise Mindset
Research shows that shaming or scaring yourself into hitting the gym isn’t nearly as effective as finding a physical activity you actually enjoy.
October 13, 2023
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Can altering cancer ‘mindsets’ change physical outcomes?
Stanford researchers explore how shifting cancer patients' mindsets about their disease could impact physical health outcomes, offering a new perspective on the mind-body connectio
August 30, 2023
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Mindfulness and Public Health
Monks and researchers gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to launch a new center for mindfulness.
April 27, 2023
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Feel like a slug? You may have the wrong exercise mind-set.
A new study shows that thinking you’re failing at exercise is bad for your health. Tracking all your movements can help.
March 23, 2023
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Better Believe It
Stanford Magazine's December 2022 covers story profiles Alia Crum and the work of the Mind & Body Lab
December 01, 2022
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Reframing Your Reality
As a guest on the Hidden Brain podcast, Dr. Crum discusses how mindsets shape our lives in subtle but profound ways
July 18, 2022
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Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians
The doctor-patient relationship is an important part of helping and healing. But it can be hijacked by racial or other biases that either party holds.
June 28, 2022
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Mindsets formed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic predict well-being several months later, Stanford psychologists find
Mindsets developed in the first 10 days of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced people’s emotions and health behaviors – and ultimately predicted their well-being six months later, Sta
April 27, 2022
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The science of mindsets for health and performance
As a guest on the Huberman Lab podcast, Alia Crum discusses the profound influence that our mindsets about stress, nutrition, exercise, and disease have on our lives.
January 24, 2022
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November 30, 2021
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Thriving under Pressure: The Effects of Stress-Related Wise Interventions on Affect, Sleep, and Exam Performance for College Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
Parker Goyer, Ali Crum and collaborators published this paper in Emotion.
November 15, 2021
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Can exercising and eating healthy be fun and indulgent instead of boring and depriving? Targeting mindsets about the process of engaging in healthy behaviors.
Danielle Boles, Brad Turnwald, Rina Horii, Taylor Duarte, Octavia Zahrt, Ali Crum, and collaborators published this article in Frontiers in Psychology.
October 05, 2021
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Changing Mindsets about Side Effects
Kari Leibowitz, Lauren Howe, and Ali Crum publish paper in BMJ Open.
February 01, 2021
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Stanford scholar applies a Norwegian mindset about winter to a COVID-19 world
Kari Leibowitz interviewed by Stanford News about how her research on wintertime mindsets in Norway can help us navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 19, 2020