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Geoff Johnson: Staying Challenged is the Best Way to Fight Off the Years
Aging is often wrongly associated with a decline in cognitive abilities, especially those abilities important for maintaining functional independence such as learning new skills or pursuing further and enhancing old skills. The aging/learning question remains
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Kids in Their Comfort Zones
MIT researcher Kim Scott describes a new platform that lets developmental researchers conduct online studies for babies and children. Families participate from home, on their own computers and their own schedules.
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APS Fellows Carey, Aslin Receive NAS Atkinson Prize
The National Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2020 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to APS William James Award Fellow Susan Elizabeth Carey and APS Fellow Richard N. Aslin.
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Carey, Aslin Receive NAS Atkinson Prize
The National Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2020 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to APS William James Award Fellow Susan Elizabeth Carey and APS Fellow Richard N. Aslin.
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The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends
No wonder, then, that researchers studying a phenomenon known as social buffering found some puzzling results when they studied teenagers. Social buffering is a way of describing the protective, positive effect of one individual on another. It
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on moral concerns and emotional responses, how children use probability to infer happiness, and implicit gender bias in descriptions of expected elections results.