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Young Trans Children Know Who They Are
Since 2013, Kristina Olson, a psychologist at the University of Washington, has been running a large, long-term study to track the health and well-being of transgender children—those who identify as a different gender from the one they were assigned at birth. Since the study’s launch, Olson has also heard from the parents of gender-nonconforming kids, who consistently defy gender stereotypes but have not socially transitioned. They might include boys who like wearing dresses or girls who play with trucks, but who have not, for example, changed the pronouns they use. Those parents asked whether their children could participate in the study. Olson agreed.
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We’re All Struggling With Tidiness And Clutter. Here’s How You Can Handle It
Do you ever feel more than just a bit of anxiety when you head home at night? From all that clutter? Papers, books, toys, laundry, kitchen junk? You're not alone. There's a whole de-cluttering industry out there. One of its brightest lights of recent is Japanese de-cluttering guru Marie Kondo, who now has a popular Netflix series. She says de-cluttering is less about just getting rid of belongings and more about finding joy in the possessions we do cherish.
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Researchers Can Predict Childhood Social Transitions
Children who already demonstrate the strongest “cross-gender” identities are the most likely to socially transition, data suggest.
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Educated Americans Paved the Way for Divorce—Then Embraced Marriage
The countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s threw the American family into chaos. Young adults—educated liberals especially—revolted against the constraints of 1950s family life, engaging seriously with formerly fringe ideas like open marriage and full-time employment for mothers. The old rules were in tatters, and nobody really knew what the new rules were. The likelihood that a given marriage would end in divorce doubled, to 50 percent, between 1965 and 1980. Academics and pundits of the era generally assumed that the retreat from marriage would continue apace.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring how infants learn to categorize words and the fidelity of different memory types.
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What’s behind the confidence of the incompetent? This suddenly popular psychological phenomenon.
You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast about being an expert. This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not a disease, syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and it’s been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it been studied and documented in social psychology.
