Research at Bing

Many influential research studies in child development known around the world have been conducted at Bing. 

In addition to Stanford professors,  graduate students and research assistants, primarily in psychology and linguistics, but also in education and communication, lead studies at the school today. For them, Bing is a living laboratory, offering a large, diverse, and  readily available pool of participants. The research that takes place at Bing would be impossible almost anywhere else, especially given the decline of laboratory nursery schools in the United States over the last two decades.

Research studies conducted at Bing over the past decades are now staples in textbooks of psychology, education, and linguistics. Some have influenced public policy for children in America. Research for many doctoral dissertations has been conducted at Bing, under the supervision of Stanford faculty members. Most of the research takes place in the "game rooms," located around the school atrium. Some research also takes place in the four classrooms.

Some of the most important research carried out at Bing include studies by:
 

•  Professor Emeritus Albert Bandura, social learning theory
•  Professor Emerita Eve Clark, developmental psycholinguistics
•  Professor Emeritus John Flavell, children's "theories of mind"
•  Professor Michael Frank, language and cognition 
• Professor Hyowon Gweon, social learning  
• Professor Emeritus Mark Lepper, intrinsic motivation
•  Professor Emirita Eleanor Maccoby, positive interaction
•  Professor Ellen Markman, language acquisition
•  Professor Walter Mischel, delay of gratification
• Professor Steven O. Roberts, psychological bases of racism and how to dismantle them