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Kids’ Reading Success Boosted by Long-Term Individualized Instruction
Students who consistently receive individualized reading instruction from first through third grade become better readers than those who don’t, researchers find.
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Physical Environment May Affect Likelihood of Dishonest Behavior
New research shows that expansive physical settings — such as having a big desk to stretch out while doing work or a large driver’s seat in an automobile — can cause individuals to feel more
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Your Brain Sees Even When You Don’t
Forbes: The unconscious processing abilities of the human brain are estimated at roughly 11 million pieces of information per second. Compare that to the estimate for conscious processing: about 40 pieces per second.* Our conscious
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What Makes Rituals Special? Join Us For A Google+ Conversation
NPR: Click play on the video player above to watch my Google+ conversation with Harvard behavioral scientist and Slate’s Human Nature correspondent about the role of ritual in human life. All over the world, people
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So Damn Superior: Parsing Partisan Politics
The Huffington Post: A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ confidence in the Congress is at an all-time low. A measly 10 percent of citizens express confidence in lawmakers, and most say they have little
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Edward Gibson, Steven T. Piantadosi, Kimberly Brink, Leon Bergen, Eunice Lim, and Rebecca Saxe Research has suggested that
