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When They’re Not Paying Attention, Children Can Learn as Much as Adults
Children’s short attention spans are often framed as a barrier to learning. New research suggests that their limited ability to focus, however, could actually aid in their ability to learn information adults ignore.
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The Myth of “Fight or Flight”
Lisa Feldman Barrett is professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. In a recent Scientific American article, she asked whether the brain’s much-touted
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To Play or Not to Play with Your Kid?
It shouldn’t be this hard to decide. … Yet some parents seem to be absorbing the message—especially from social media, the great flattener of nuanced communications—that in playing with their kids, they might be doing
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Why Do People Mix Up Names?
President Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russia’s President Putin. Donald Trump named Nikki Haley when he meant Nancy Pelosi. And getting some comedic mileage out of such flubs, the writers of “Friends” had Ross call his bride-to-be Rachel. Her name was Emily.
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Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning
The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page is becoming a relic of the past in our screen-dominated world, where text messages and thumb-typed grocery lists have replaced handwritten
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Wharton Psychologist on How to Reach Your Potential: People ‘Really Underestimate the Slow Learners, the Late Bloomers’
Are you a formerly “gifted” kid, struggling to find success as an adult? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant may have a solution for you. Put simply: Instead of giving up when things don’t come naturally to you, start
