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Kids And Screen Time: Cutting Through The Static
NPR: The walls are lined with robots and movie posters for Star Wars and Back to the Future. But this is no 1980s nerd den. It’s the technology lab at Westside Neighborhood School in Los Angeles, and the domain of its
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: State and Trait Effects on Individual Differences in Children’s Mathematical Development Drew H. Bailey, Tyler W. Watts, Andrew K. Littlefield, and David C. Geary Research indicating a
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Some millennials are this trapped: Income inequality, obesity and the neuroscience of adolescence
Salon: The yawning gap between the haves and have-nots will undoubtedly be a focus of discussion in this year’s midterm elections. But while the fact that income inequality has been growing is well known, little
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How To Get Children To Behave Without Hitting Them
NPR: There’s plenty of evidence that spanking, paddling or hitting children doesn’t improve their behavior in the long run and actually makes it worse. But the science never trumps emotion, according to Alan Kazdin, head of the
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: White Matter Morphometric Changes Uniquely Predict Children’s Reading Acquisition Chelsea A. Myers, Maaike Vandermosten, Emily A. Farris, Roeland Hancock, Paul Gimenez, Jessica M. Black, Brandi Casto, Miroslav
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The Case for Delayed Adulthood
The New York Times: ONE of the most notable demographic trends of the last two decades has been the delayed entry of young people into adulthood. According to a large-scale national study conducted since the