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Study: Moody Toddlers Could End Up as Compulsive Gamblers
Education Week: Is your 3-year-old overly cranky, impulsive and restless? If the answer is yes, you could be raising a future gambler. So says a new study published recently in the journal Psychological Science that
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Give Affect Science, Get Positive Emotion
A report from the 2012 Science & Engineering Festival WASHINGTON — “Oh, I’m so glad that we found you!” one mother exclaimed as she and her young daughter approached the Affective Science Institute’s booth at
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Four APS Fellows Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Yesterday, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 84 new members and 21 new foreign associates. APS Fellow Uta Frith, University College, London, UK and University of Aarhus, Denmark, was honored as a
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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
