Psychology & Psychiatry
Moral responses change as people age
Moral responses change as people age says a new study from the University of Chicago.
Jun 3, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Babies can perform sophisticated analyses of how the physical world should behave: study
Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects ...
May 26, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why people with schizophrenia may have trouble reading social cues
Understanding the actions of other people can be difficult for those with schizophrenia. Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that impairments in a brain area involved in perception of social stimuli may be partly ...
May 24, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Eggs, butter, milk -- memory is not just a shopping list
Often, the goal of science is to show that things are not what they seem to be. But now, in an article which will be published in an upcoming issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for ...
May 23, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research overturns theory on how children learn their first words
New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through ...
May 23, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parents' 'um's' and 'uh's' help toddlers learn new words, cognitive scientists find
A team of cognitive scientists has good news for parents who are worried that they are setting a bad example for their children when they say "um" and "uh." A study conducted at the University of Rochester's Baby Lab shows ...
Apr 14, 2011
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