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Inflated Confidence May Not Give Children a Learning Advantage After All
Believing they can succeed might encourage children to persist longer at difficult tasks and eventually see performance improvements. New research suggests that this apparent learning advantage may be a statistical illusion.
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The High Cost of Silent Classrooms
… The cost of this silence is both cognitive and social. When artificial intelligence anticipates every step before a student even recognizes a hurdle, it strips away the productive struggle on which learning depends. Students
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of recent articles covering overconfidence, rationality, sexual identity, and much more.
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Overturning Assumptions in Childhood Learning and Cognition
Researchers are finding out just how different—and adaptive—learning and memory can be early in life.
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How COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids
As COVID surged and schools across the U.S. shuttered in March 2020, Jamie Wyss, an elementary school counselor at the Virginia Beach City Public Schools system in Virginia, vividly remembers quickly assembling paper packets on
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Beyond Focus: How Attention Shapes Learning Differently for Children and Adults
Podcast: This episode explores whether children’s weaker selective attention is a hidden strength by addressing findings on attention, memory, and childhood learning.
