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Why You Want to Eat This Baby Up: It’s Science
One night back in the 1990s, I dreamed that I’d been stabbed in the stomach. When I bolted awake, pain sent me hurtling to the bathroom where I threw up. It felt as if a creature inside my belly was trying to claw its way out. --- They couldn’t understand. And the truth is, I couldn’t either. Why are most people born with the urge that drives them to have children and others, like me, not? I began to wonder if science had an answer. --- Anyone who has been on the internet lately knows that cuteness can get weird: lemurs with Keane-painting eyes, infants dressed as peapods, cats with toast on their heads.
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Trigger Warnings Do Little to Reduce People’s Distress, Research Shows
Trigger warnings that alert people to potentially sensitive content are increasingly popular, but data suggest they may not have the intended effect.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring academic achievement in children with autism; self, memory, and childhood trauma; and goal pursuit in individuals with anxiety.
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Power doesn’t corrupt. It just exposes who leaders really are.
Another day, another leader seems to fall from a seat of power. The #MeToo movement has shown us devastating evidence of how male superiors have abused their power over female subordinates. The Catholic Church has offered demoralizing revelations of how priests have abused their power over nuns and children. When leaders cross the line, we often blame power. As Lord Acton famously expressed it, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But it’s not entirely true. Last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I wanted to understand the impact of power on people.
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TVs in bedrooms may harm children’s physical and mental health
New Canadian research has found that growing up with a TV in the bedroom may have a negative effect on children's physical and mental health in their teenage years. Carried out by researchers at the Université de Montréal's School of Psychoeducation and the INRS-IAF, a research institute affiliated with the Université du Québec à Montréal, the study looked at data gathered from 1,859 Quebec children born between the spring of 1997 and the spring of 1998. "The early years are a critical period in a child's development," said study author Linda Pagani, who will be discussing the study on Thursday at the International Convention of Psychological Science in Paris.
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New Research From Psychological Science
