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Babies can think before they can speak

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From the NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY media release: Infants are capable of understanding relations like “same” and “different” Analogical learning processes are present in prelinguistic human infants Two pennies can be considered the same — both are… 

How racial stereotypes impact the way we communicate

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From the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA media release: Racial stereotypes and expectations can impact the way we communicate and understand others, according to UBC research. The new study, published in the Journal of the Acoustical… 

Friendships start better with a smile

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From the SPRINGER media release: If you want to strike up a new relationship, simply smile. It works because people are much more attuned to positive emotions when forming new bonds than they are to… 

Subconscious learning shapes pain responses

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From the Karolinska Institutet media release: In a new study led from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, researchers report that people can be conditioned to associate images with particular pain responses — such as improved tolerance to… 

Effective policing depends on public trust, science shows

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From the Association for Psychological Science media release: Public trust and confidence in the police have remained flat for several decades despite a declining crime rate in the U.S., a problem that has become especially… 

Teachers more likely to label black students as troublemakers

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From the APS media release: Teachers are likely to interpret students’ misbehavior differently depending on the student’s race, according to new research findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.…