From the Pennsylvania State University press release via EurekAlert!: Text messaging may offer tweens a quick way to send notes to friends and family, but it could lead to declining language and grammar skills, according…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We all know that, for the most part, it’s wrong to kill other people, it’s inappropriate to wear jeans to bed, and we shouldn’t ignore people when…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals. Lucy Cheke, a PhD student at the University…
From the Wake Forest University press release via Newswise: As the shiny new school supplies beckon, the fresh start to the school year could be the inspiration for parents to shift their strategies when it…
From the University of Bielefeld press release via EurekAlert!: Embarrassing personal photos and videos circulating in the Internet: researchers at Bielefeld University have discovered that young people who fall victim to cyberbullying or cyber harassment…
From the Deakin University press release via MedicalXpress: Deakin University health researchers have found pre-schoolers who play interactive video games, such as Wii, have better motor skills. The researchers, in collaboration with a colleague from…
From the Australian National University press release: Television coverage of the shooting at a cinema in Colorado last week may traumatise children who watch it, according to a leading psychiatrist at The Australian National University.…
From the CAMH press release via EurekAlert!: An ongoing survey of Ontario students in grades 7 to 12 conducted for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that while the majority of students…
From the New York University press release via EurekAlert!: Infants are able to detect how speech communicates unobservable intentions, researchers at New York University and McGill University have found in a study that sheds new…
From the Rutgers University press release: Poor mothers are more likely to be classified as having the mental illness known as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) because they live in poverty – not because they are…