From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Family interaction and everyday activity strongly influence how television advertisements are experienced and interpreted at home, according to a new study in the Journal…
From the Concordia University press release: Language mixing – using elements from two languages in the same sentence – is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and…
From the Taylor & Francis press release via AlphaGalileo: Almost everyone teaches their children that lying is always wrong. But the vast majority of parents lie to their children in order to get them to…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Most parents do not worry if their young child has an imaginary friend and even see advantages in such an invisible companion. These are the…
From the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne press release via EurekAlert!: It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a study supported…
From the CAMH press release via EurekAlert!: The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada (BBBSC) are releasing the first results of one of the largest mentoring studies ever…
From the Boston College press release via EurekAlert!: A new study that looked at more than 75,000 children in day care in Norway found little evidence that the amount of time a child spends in…
From the Canisius College press release via Newswise: In a second randomized clinical trial, researchers at the Institute for Autism Research at Canisius College have found a comprehensive summer treatment (summerMax) to be highly effective…
From the Murdoch University press release via MedicalXpress: If you want your daughter to feel better about her body, a Murdoch University researcher says to shift the focus from appearance to function. Dr Bree Abbott…