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Insights From the Youngest Minds
The New York Times: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Seated in a cheerfully cramped monitoring room at the Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Elizabeth S. Spelke, a professor of psychology and a pre-eminent researcher of the
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Moody toddlers at risk for gambling issues, study bets
CTV: Parents who dismiss a toddler’s foot-stomping and tantrum-throwing as ordinary growing pains may want to revisit that idea. Defiant, impulsive behaviour in preschool could hint that a child is at risk of developing a
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How to Handle Little Liars
The Wall Street Journal: When Cindy Ballagh’s 10-year-old son Kaden lost his portable videogame recently, she asked him where he last put it. His answer: on his dresser. After they spent several minutes searching on
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'Moody' Toddlers More Likely to Become Problem Gamblers, Study Suggests
LiveScience: Restless, moody toddlers are more likely than other tots to grow up to become problem gamblers, suggests a new study. Retracing the lives of more than 900 New Zealanders, researchers found that 3-year-olds with
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That Impulsive, Moody Preschooler May Grow Up to Be a Problem Gambler
Give me the child at 3 and I will give you the adult compulsive gambler. That is the striking finding of a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological
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Psychological Science Convention in Chicago: Music in the Mind, Mental Health, Learning, and More
More than 4,000 psychological scientists, academics, clinicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators from 85 countries will gather in Chicago for the Association for Psychological Science’s 24th annual convention May 23-27, 2012 at the Sheraton Chicago. A