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Royal Baby Name ‘Charlotte’ Makes Top 10 List
Live Science: For the second year in a row, more parents have donned their boys with the name Noah than any other name, the Social Security Administration announced this morning (May 8). And Emma knocked Sophia from
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Not So Innocent: Toddlers’ Inferences About Costs and Culpability Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Laura E. Schulz How do perceptions of competence and motivation influence children’s
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Speaking a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes
Pacific Standard: In the midst of a debate over the potential cognitive benefits of learning a second language, new research suggests it may have social value as well. Actually, even being around people who speak different languages
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Brains, Schools and a Vicious Cycle of Poverty
The Wall Street Journal: A fifth or more of American children grow up in poverty, with the situation worsening since 2000, according to census data. At the same time, as education researcher Sean Reardon has
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Four Ways to Tell If an Educational App Will Actually Help Your Child Learn
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center: Imagine someone telling you that a new technology would be available in five years that has the potential to revolutionise childhood and early education. But the downside is that you
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Children Exposed to Multiple Languages May Be Better Natural Communicators
Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers discovered that children from
