Mounting behavior, that awkward thrusting motion dogs sometimes do against your leg, is usually associated with sexual arousal in animals, but this is not always the case. New research by Caltech neuroscientists that explores ...
Dec 24, 2020
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We make decisions based on not only our own learning experience, but also learning from others. But with the presence of other people's choices, how do we learn from them to better inform our own learning? Is social learning ...
Aug 20, 2020
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At a time when scams seem all around us and fake news appears to be on the rise, you might be relieved to know that even young children show some impressive skills when it comes to identifying poor sources of information, ...
Jan 27, 2020
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Wearable fitness trackers have made it all too easy for us to make assumptions about our health. We may look to our heart rate to determine whether we really felt the stress of that presentation at work this morning, or think ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Learning what is dangerous by watching a video or being told (known as social learning) has just as strong an effect on our decision-making as first-hand experience of danger, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden ...
Feb 14, 2019
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Young children often observe society dividing its members—by ethnicity, religion, gender, or even favorite sports team. But a review by a Yale psychologist published August 14 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences ...
Aug 14, 2018
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Children age six to seven, and even as young as four years old, can under certain conditions identify when they are presented with information that is misleading – but technically true – according to a new study from ...
May 23, 2017
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Picture a little boy imitating his father shaving in the mirror or a little girl wobbling proudly in her mother's high heels.
Sep 8, 2016
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Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people. The discovery could help understanding of conditions like psychopathy where people's behaviour is ...
Aug 15, 2016
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Babies learn language best by interacting with people rather than passively through a video or audio recording. But it's been unclear what aspects of social interactions make them so important for learning.
Jul 27, 2015
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