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The Science of Us
No one could accuse the boy’s self-appointed trainers of lacking ambition or being sticklers for ethical research. Psychologist John Watson of Johns Hopkins University and his graduate student Rosalie Rayner first observed that a 9-month-old
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Lila Gleitman (1929–2021), Renowned for Innovative Research on Language and Learning
Gleitman’s empirical work helped to unravel the mysteries of how children learn language.
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Parents Can Help Their Children Cultivate These 3 Traits to be More Successful
Parents should be helping their children cultivate three distinct character traits to succeed in life, argues one expert, who says they are often overlooked in the traditional educational system. Speaking on a panel at
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Handwriting Beats Typing and Watching Videos for Learning to Read
New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that handwriting plays a valuable part in language instruction, helping people learn certain skills far faster than they can by typing or watching videos.
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To Spark Curiosity, Don’t Tell Preschoolers Too Much Or Too Little
Preschool children are sensitive to the gap between how much they know and how much there is to learn, the finding indicates. Researchers say this “optimal” amount of existing knowledge creates the perfect mix of uncertainty and curiosity in
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on extremism, the development of cognition, psychopathology and diagnosis, culture in animals, prediction biases, scams, market cognition, motor and language development.
