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More Proof That IQ Levels Are Rising
Business Insider: It appears that year after year there are more gifted students being identified in New York City. But what about states other than New York? Are there more gifted students being identified all
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Three Teachers’ Treasured Technologies
Are these not the best of times for professing psychology? Gone are yesterday’s chalk, overheads, and VHS cassettes. Enter today’s PowerPoint animations, embedded video clips, and SMART Boards. We are no longer forced to brave
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Why Love Literally Hurts
Most of us see the connection between social and physical pain as a figurative one. But research is providing compelling evidence that the two types of pain share a common source.
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Popular study strategies called ineffective — report
The Washington Post: Researchers who evaluated 10 learning techniques believed to improve student achievement found that five of them — including highlighting or underlining, are not very effective. The report, called “Improving Students’ Learning With
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Study links synaesthesia with coloured fridge magnets
Wired UK: A study of people with colour-grapheme synaesthesia — where written forms are associated with particular colours — has found that the pairings of colours and letters may be linked to playing with children’s
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Lance Armstrong’s lies not so different from our own
The Washington Post: Lance Armstrong may have been branded liar and cheat of the month, but experts say he’s not as different from the rest of us as we’d like to believe. Lying, they say