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Should Kids Get A Trophy For Showing Up?
NPR: Talk about a spirited debate … Just Google the question, “Should kids get trophies for participation?”, and the first page yields headlines like “Losing Is Good For You” and “Hell YES all the little
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Thinking Like A Scientist Can Help Overcome Allure Of Appearances
NPR: Not long ago, Caren Walker, a PhD student at the University of California at Berkeley, was hiking in Tilden Park with her brother Michael when they came upon what looked like wild carrots. “Yum
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Even Kindergarteners Can Rate Their Own Confidence
Discover Magazine: Do you remember on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—apparently this show is still on, but I’ll assume no one else has seen it this decade—how after contestants picked an answer, Regis Philbin sometimes
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Set goals and you just may live longer
Market Watch: Remember the saying “idle hands are the devil’s workshop?” And your mother’s admonition to “keep busy?” Turns out they may actually be healthful advice to live by. New research published in Psychological Science suggests that having
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Bouncing to the Beatles Breeds Benevolent Babies
Pacific Standard: As part of our ongoing inquiry into the evolutionary origins of music, we’ve noted a line of research that links altruistic behavior with synchronized sounds. A study from England found eight- to 11-year-olds who made
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Can Where the Wild Things Are Teach Kids Empathy?
New York Magazine: Kids who spend their early years lost in the imaginary worlds of children’s fiction —Where the Wild Things Are, Corduroy,Beatrix Potter’s stories of Peter Rabbit — may be getting more out of the