Excessive screen time can affect young people's emotional development
A recent Beyond Blue survey of more than 2,000 teachers identified mental ill-health and excessive screen time as the biggest problems facing their students.
Sep 21, 2023
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Psychological Phenomena: News and Research on Theory of Mind
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Moral reasoning found to display characteristic patterns in the brain
Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including matters of care, fairness ...
Sep 7, 2023
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Successful cooperation depends on good mind reading abilities, research suggests
A person's "mind reading ability" can predict how well they are able to cooperate, even with people they have never met before.
Jul 13, 2023
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Age-linked performance on social cognitive tests explored in psychosis
Different age-related performance patterns are seen on tests of emotion perception and processing (EPP) and theory of mind (ToM) in individuals with psychotic disorders and controls, according to a study published online ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Brain differences suggest that children and adults use different strategies to understand social interactions
Understanding the meaning of social interactions is an important human ability that relies on deciphering different kinds of social information. For example, perceiving body and face information, and understanding others' ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Q&A: A deep dive into autistic traits and self-conscious emotions in early childhood
Research shows that given the difficulties in navigating social relationships, children with more autistic traits might be prone to less attuned self-conscious emotions after transgression (displaying less guilt and embarrassment ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Milestone developments at four years old help children tell lies, play hide-and-seek and read maps
At the age of about four, children reach important milestones in brain development.
Mar 13, 2023
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Infants outperform AI in 'commonsense psychology'
Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people's actions, finds a new study by a team of psychology and data science researchers. Its results, which highlight fundamental differences between ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Can reading help heal us and process our emotions—or is that just a story we tell ourselves?
The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: "Psyches Iatreion," translated as "healing place of the soul."
Jan 23, 2023
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Autism spectrum disorder study looks at monkeys as possible models
New research builds upon growing evidence demonstrating the importance of rhesus macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta) as a model for the core social impairments observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Jan 16, 2023
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