From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: A brain-imaging study offers new support for the idea that infants can accurately track other people’s beliefs. When 7-month-old infants in the study viewed videos of…
From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: Research has shown that a developing child’s brain structure and function can be adversely affected when the child is raised in an environment lacking adequate education,…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: Preschoolers can learn a lot from educational television, but younger toddlers may learn more from interactive digital media (such as video chats and touchscreen mobile…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Class clowns’ off-task antics amuse and delight their classmates during first and second grades, making them the most sought-after playmates on the playground in early elementary…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: Shortly after they turn 1, most babies begin to help others, whether by handing their mother an object out of her reach or giving a…
From the Frontiers press release: New research links specific numerical activities undertaken by parents to certain math skills in young children. Published today in open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, the study also finds that the more…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: Most parenting programs aim to teach parents how to reduce their children’s disruptive behavior. New research looked at more than 150 studies of these programs,…
From the Northwestern University press release: Three-month-old babies cannot sit up or roll over, yet they are already capable of learning patterns from simply looking at the world around them, according to a recent Northwestern…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: A landmark 1995 study found that children from higher-income families hear about 30 million more words during their first three years of life than children from lower-income…
From the American Psychological Association press release: How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped…