From the University of Otago press release: Through simple games and day-to-day tasks, parents can help their children learn self-regulation, a skill considered essential for success, a University of Otago, New Zealand, study has found.…
From the Wiley press release: A new study published in Infant and Child Development indicates that complications during birth may increase the risk that children will develop social anxiety by their pre-teen years. For the study, 149…
From the George Mason University press release: A new study from the George Mason University Arts Research Center and published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts found a link between arts elective courses…
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release: Researchers have identified changes in brain connectivity and brain activity during rest and reward anticipation in children with anhedonia, a condition where people lose interest and…
From the University of Montreal press release: Too much time in front of the bedroom TV deprives the child of more enriching developmental activities and may explain, in part, less optimal body mass, poor eating…
From the University of Liverpool press release: New University of Liverpool research, published in Pediatrics, highlights the negative influence that social media has on children’s food intake. Current research shows celebrity endorsement and television advertising of…
From the University of Rochester press release: The field of adolescent psychology is increasingly focused on parents, with researchers asking how mothers and fathers control themselves (and their rising anger) in difficult interactions with their…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Researchers have clarified the development of the ability to attend to a speaker in a noisy environment — a phenomenon known as the “cocktail party effect.” Published in JNeurosci,…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: Children who have more conflict in relationships with their mothers during early years of elementary school may find it more difficult to find a sense of…
From the University of Chichester press release: It’s the archetypal child’s drawing — family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does…