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Babies Aren’t Afraid of Heights Until They Start Crawling
Smithsonian Magazine: Babies are fearless when it comes to heights. That woozy, faint feeling only starts kicking in around month nine, when babies begin to recoil from the edge of a steep staircase or the drop-off
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How Babies Learn to Fear Heights
LiveScience: As any parent knows, babies aren’t born with a fear of heights. In fact, infants can be frighteningly bold around the edge of a bed or a changing table. But around 9 months, babies
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Teens’ Self-Consciousness Has Biological Basis, Study Says
US News & World Report: Many teens are concerned about what other kids think of them, and this self-consciousness is linked with specific body and brain responses that appear to begin and peak in adolescence
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How Do Babies Learn to Be Wary of Heights?
Infants develop a fear of heights as a result of their experiences moving around their environments, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Learning to avoid
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2013 APS Award Address: Elaine F. Walker
Research on the origins of serious mental illness has benefited greatly from advances in developmental neuroscience. With these advances, we now have a clearer picture of the complex interplay between environmental factors and brain development.
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Why Teens Are So Self-Conscious
The Huffington Post: It’s not teens’ fault they’re so worried about what others think about them: Their brains just might be that way, according to a small new study. Researchers from Harvard University found that
