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How to Keep Children’s Stress From Turning Into Trauma
Children may be processing the disruptions in their lives right now in ways the adults around them do not expect: acting out, regressing, retreating or even seeming surprisingly content. Parents need to know that all
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Loss, Grief, Stress: How The Pandemic Is Affecting Kids
NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro and education correspondent Cory Turner talk with child psychologist Abigail Gewirtz about the impact of the pandemic on kid’s mental health and development. … GARCIA-NAVARRO: Abigail, let’s start with the research. What
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How Humans Evolved to Care for Others
APS Member/Author: Alison Gopnik The last few weeks have seen extraordinary displays of altruism. Ordinary people have transformed their lives—partly to protect themselves and the people they love from the Covid-19 pandemic, but also to
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‘Education via Computer Needs To Be Limited’: Psychologist Says Parents Must Step Up To Nurture Kids In Age Of Coronavirus
With schools closed for more than 55 million children across the country in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, students, parents and teachers are facing a host of new and unexpected challenges. Schools
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Over 30 Percent of Americans Have Witnessed COVID-19 Bias Against Asians, Poll Says
More than 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Ipsos survey conducted for the Center for Public Integrity. Sixty percent of Asian Americans, who made up about
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APS Fellow Alison Gopnik Named Guggenheim Fellow
Alison Gopnik, an APS Fellow who is recognized internationally for her study of children’s learning and development, has been selected as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
