From the American Psychological Association press release via Newswise: Children may perform better in school and feel more confident about themselves if they are told that failure is a normal part of learning, rather than…
From the UT Dallas press release: Recent studies by a UT Dallas researcher aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments. Dr. Christine Dollaghan, a professor at the Callier Center for…
From the ETH Zürich press release via AlphaGalileo: Researchers from ETH Zurich have been exploring the question of whether prejudices might be rational under certain conditions. Using game theory, they created various scenarios and played…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That’s a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published…
From the Karolinska Institute press release via AlphaGalileo: During depression, the brain becomes less plastic and adaptable, and thus less able to perform certain tasks, like storing memories. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska…
From the Concordia University press release: We depend on a barrage of standardized tests to assess everything from aptitude to intelligence. But do they provide an accurate forecast when it comes to something as complex…
From the RIKEN press release via ResearchSEA: Even though typical dance-floor activity might suggest otherwise, humans generally demonstrate a remarkable capacity to synchronize their body movements in response to auditory stimuli. But is this ability…
From the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft press release via HealthCanal: Interactive learning with the aid of a computer was the hype of recent years. But as users quickly discovered: learning on a computer monitor is almost as tedious…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: Prof. Dr. Albert Newen and Dr. Leon de Bruin from the Institute of Philosophy II at the Ruhr-Universität explain their theory in the journal Cognition. In the…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: While boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic. A new study published in Psychological…