From the Concordia University press release: ‘Stand by me’ is a common refrain when it comes to friendship but new research from Concordia University proves that the concept goes beyond pop music: keeping friends close…
From the University of Missouri press release: While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come…
From the Temple University press release: Babies embrace nice characters over those who are bad. That’s according to a new study co-authored by Temple psychology postdoctoral fellow Neha Mahajan with Kiley Hamlin of the University…
From the Cardiff University press release via MedicalXPress: Infants can understand the difference between intentional and accidental actions from tone of voice alone, new research by the Cardiff University School of Psychology has shown. Led…
From the University of Colorado Boulder press release: A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder could be a wake-up call for parents of toddlers: Daytime naps for your kids may be more…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Two vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about…
From the Ohio State University press release by Jeff Grabmeier: New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people’s thoughts and feelings tend to be better at…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert: Even kindergarteners know that thinking positively will make you feel better. And parents’ own feelings of optimism may play a role in whether…