Psychology & Psychiatry
At what age do kids recognise fairness?
Children as young as seven have the same capacity as adults to make judgements on the anti-social behaviour of others.
Aug 9, 2017
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Psychology & Psychiatry
Attentive listening helps teens open up, study finds
Engaged listening techniques such as eye contact, nodding and using key words to praise openness helps teenagers when they admit bad behavior and share hurt feelings with their parents, a new study has shown.
Jun 4, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children told lies by parents subsequently lie more as adults, face adjustment difficulty
"If you don't behave, I'll call the police," is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. Parents' lies elicit compliance in the short term, but a new psychology study led by Nanyang Technological ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Misjudging the strength of other people's emotions based on egocentric bias
People of all ages tend to misjudge the strength of other people's emotions based on an egocentric bias, according to a new study by Associate Professor Hajimu Hayashi, Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development ...
Jul 2, 2019
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Pediatrics
To tell the truth: kids' edition
(HealthDay)—Teaching kids about telling the truth is a critical life lesson. And your approach can determine how motivated your kids are to be honest.
Feb 28, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How quickly can children learn routes?
New research from the University of Liverpool suggests that children as young as eight can learn a route after only a single experience of it.
Jan 9, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Coming up with explanations helps children develop cause-and-effect thinking skills
(Medical Xpress)—Asking children to come up with explanations—even to themselves—enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin.
Apr 23, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
What factors influence children's learning of fear?
Many fears develop during childhood. And the scientific literature is quite clear: learning to fear through observation is common especially in children who take their parents as models and learn to fear a stimulus without ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parents look on the bright side of kids' worries, study finds
Parents consistently overestimate their children's optimism and downplay their worries, according to new research by psychologists at the University of California, Davis, Center for Mind and Brain.
Oct 24, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Readers found to rely on word spelling rather than sound in reading
Skilled readers are known to extract information not only from the word they are looking at but from the one directly following it. This phenomenon is called pre-processing. Researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and ...
Mar 21, 2023
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