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Research Briefs
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Why Are There Differing Preferences for Suffixes and Prefixes Across Languages?
Interview with Alexander Martin about the preference of prefixes over suffixes in WEIRD languages.
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Why Are There Differing Preferences for Suffixes and Prefixes Across Languages?
While speakers of English and other Western languages prefer using suffixes more than prefixes, a new study reveals that this preference is not as universal as once thought. [August 27, 2020]
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Were French People Born to Speak French?
Linguistic anthropologists have observed that people all over the world perceive languages, and speakers of those different languages, as fundamentally different from one another. When people listen to others’ speech, they hear discrete categorical boundaries
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on developmental disorders, the development of regret and its impact on decisions, a framework for understanding emotions, how to improve children’s language, and a new model of working memory.
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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.