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Language on Twitter Tracks Rates of Coronary Heart Disease
Twitter can serve as a dashboard indicator of a community’s psychological well-being and can predict county-level rates of heart disease.
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Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits
Scientific American: Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports. Over
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Shakespeare: One of the First and Greatest Psychologists
The Atlantic: Harvard linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker groups social reformers into two broad categories. The moralist condemns one behavior and promotes another; the scientist, on the other hand, tries to understand why human
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Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids
The New York Times: It was summer in Tuscany. The rolling hills were adorned with their famous haystacks. The cypress trees were majestically verdant against the golden backdrop. We were in the picturesque Renaissance town Pienza
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‘Literally,’ Emojis, and Other Trends That Aren’t Destroying English
The Atlantic: As an experimental psychologist, Steven Pinker thinks about writing. As a linguist, he thinks about writing. In The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, the author and Harvard professor mines both
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The Latest Research On Bilingualism And The Brain
NPR: Speaking multiple languages is like exercise for your brain. That’s according to a growing body of research suggesting that bilingualism can have cognitive benefits beyond the realm of language use. Recent studies say it
