From the Yale-NUS College press release: A new study by Yale-NUS College Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Psychology) Cheung Hoi Shan has discovered that shy children with low English vocabulary skills, can still be popular among…
From the American Academy of Sleep Medicine press release: A new study suggests that while healthy preterm children have more medical sleep problems than full-term children, they are more likely to fall asleep independently. Results show…
From the Frontiers press release: Researchers confirm that when 4-6 year old children learn how to solve a puzzle using a touchscreen tablet, they can then apply this learning to the same puzzle in the…
From the University of California – San Diego press release: An international team of researchers reports that when children are praised for being smart not only are they quicker to give up in the face…
From the University of Washington press release: Children who read and write at home — whether for assignments or just for fun — are building long-term study and executive function skills, according to a paper from…
From the University of Warwick press release: Children sleep more poorly if their mothers suffer from insomnia symptoms — potentially affecting their mental wellbeing and development — according to new research by the University of Warwick…
From the Stockholm University press release: Children who live full time with one parent are more likely to feel stressed than children in shared custody situations. The benefit holds regardless of the level of conflict between…
From the Frontiers press release: Researchers studied children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and found that inattentiveness was linked to worse academic performance up to 10 years later, regardless of ADHD, even…
From the University of Exeter press release: Excluding children from school may lead to long- term psychiatric problems and psychological distress, a study of thousands of children has shown. Research by the University of Exeter, published…
From the New York University press release: Young children’s sense of self is similar to that of older kids and adults, a team of psychology researchers has found. The results show that our ability to reason…