http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Teachers and parents matter more than peers in keeping adolescents engaged in school, according to a new study that counters the widespread belief that peers matter most in the lives of adolescents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-teachers-parents-trump-peers-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:33:20 EST news251461954 High-quality early child care isn't important just for children, but for their mothers, too. That's the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin; the study appears in the journal Child Development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-high-quality-child-good-children-.html Health Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:29:40 EST news247894164 Young children exposed to a harshly punitive school environment are more inclined to lie to conceal their misbehaviour than are children from non-punitive schools, a study of three- and four-year-old West African children suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-harsh-discipline-fosters-dishonesty-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:14:50 EST news238680869 Although most teens have the knowledge and reasoning ability to make decisions as rationally as adults, their tendency to make much riskier choices suggests that they still lack some key component of wise decision making. Why is this so? Because adolescents may not bother to use those thinking skills before they act. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at Temple University that appears in the journal Child Development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:54:47 EST news227501669 According to a new study, American, but not Chinese, children's sense of responsibility to their parents tends to decline in the seventh and eighth grades, a trend that coincides with declines in their academic performance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-chinese-children-differ-commitment-parents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 May 2011 03:55:28 EST news224304873 As teens push their parents for more control over their lives, they use their peers as metrics to define appropriate levels of freedom and personal autonomy. They also tend to overestimate how much freedom their peers actually have. Those are the conclusions of new research that appears in the journal Child Development; the research was conducted at The Ohio State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-teens-peers-gauge-autonomy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 May 2011 03:35:43 EST news224303717