From the American Psychological Association press release: Children tend to prefer to be friends with other children who speak with the same local accent as they have, even if they grow up in a diverse…
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…
From the Yale University press release: Gender stereotypes can hurt children — quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick,…
From the University of British Columbia press release: Immersive virtual reality (VR) can be remarkably lifelike, but new UBC research has found a yawning gap between how people respond psychologically in VR and how they…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: Brief, text-based, self-administered exercises can significantly increase in-the-moment happiness for adults recovering from substance use disorders, report researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Recovery Research Institute. The…
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: For many years, China has been struggling to tackle high pollution levels that are crippling its major cities. Indeed, a recent study by researchers at Chinese Hong…
From the McMaster University press release: A team of researchers from McMaster University has discovered a new technique to examine how musicians intuitively coordinate with one another during a performance, silently predicting how each will…
From the Ohio State University press release: Human beings can configure their faces in thousands and thousands of ways to convey emotion, but only 35 expressions actually get the job done across cultures, a new…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: If you’re angry about the political feud that drove the federal government to partially shut down, or about a golden parachute for a CEO who ran a business…
From the University of Zurich press release: Nudging, the concept of influencing people’s behavior without imposing rules, bans or coercion, is an idea that government officials and marketing specialists alike are keen to harness, and…