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The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
2021年12月29日 · How do children learn language, and how is language related to other cognitive and social skills? For decades, the specialized field of developmental psycholinguistics has studied how children acquire language—or multiple languages—taking into account biological, neurological, and social factors that influence linguistic developments and, in turn, can play a role in how children learn and ...
‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy
2017年12月29日 · Rebecca Saxe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) said her work with developmental psychology confirms this trend. In one series of experiments, Saxe monitored the brain networks that 3- to 5-year-old children used to consider a character’s mind (the temporoparietal junction, posterior cingulate, and prefrontal cortex) and body (the secondary somatosensory cortex, insula, middle frontal ...
Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination
2013年3月29日 · People say that procrastination reduces the productivity. But scientifically it actually increases the productivity. People tend to work more and try to be more productive in the last few hours before the deadline.
Breakthroughs and Discoveries in Psychological Science: 2020 Year …
2020年12月29日 · Violent Video Games and Aggression: The Connection Is Dubious, at Best: The coronavirus pandemic put a damper on many traditional summertime activities for kids, giving them more opportunity to socialize with friends virtually through online gaming.But many hours of extra screen time worried some parents, especially in light of a 2015 report linking violent video games with aggressive behavior ...
The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
2018年1月31日 · Over the last 20 years, millions of people have used an online test to probe attitudes they didn’t know they had. Since its online debut in 1998, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has allowed people to discover potential prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness — and that researchers therefore wouldn’t find through participant self-reports.
The Psychological Study of Smiling
2011年2月11日 · A smile begins in our sensory corridors. The earcollects a whispered word. The eyes spot an old friend on the station platform. The hand feels the pressure of another hand. This emotional data funnels to …
How Poverty Affects the Brain and Behavior – Association for ...
2015年8月31日 · A Data Hub to Measure Well-Being. Despite the dramatic economic growth, immense technological progress, and substantial increases in average disposable income seen in numerous countries over the last 50 years, doubts have been raised, both in the social sciences and in society at large, as to whether people in those nations really are better off.
Harlow’s Classic Studies Revealed the Importance of Maternal …
2018年6月20日 · Harry Harlow’s empirical work with primates is now considered a “classic” in behavioral science, revolutionizing our understanding of the role that social relationships play in early development.
Myth: We Only Use 10% of Our Brains
2018年8月29日 · SUGGESTED LESSON PLAN. This notion seems firmly rooted in popular culture despite many efforts to debunk it (Hughes, Lyddy, & Lamb, 2013). It was the basis of the movie Lucy (2014), which depicted what supposedly would happen if a person actually used all 100% of her brainpower. It has been used to justify belief in pseudoscientific psychic powers and is a tacit assumption in many self-help ...