In a second randomized clinical trial, researchers at the Institute for Autism Research at Canisius College have found a comprehensive summer treatment (summerMax) to be highly effective for children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASDs). Children with the disorders endure lifelong impairments involving social and ...
Date Posted: January 14, 2013
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
GOIf you want to deter crime, it seems that you’d want to lengthen prison sentences so that criminals would face steeper costs for breaking the law. In fact, a mountain of research shows that increases in prison terms have done nothing to deter ...
Jan 14
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If you want to influence people's behaviour by hitting them where it hurts, the wallet seems like a great place to aim. Say a local authority began fining litter-bugs on the spot, you can bet the streets would soon be cleaner. But there's a ...
Jan 12
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The bystander effect is well-known in behavioural psychology and suggests that the more people who witnessing a violent emergency the less likely it is that someone will intervene. It was first identified in the 1960s, but conducting research on the ...
Jan 12
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Roll -up, roll up wanna know the best way to lose weight? Got your attention? Great!
I’m sure at one point or another we’ve all struggled to find the best way to lose weight and keep it off. And sure you don’t have to be a rocket scientist ...
Jan 12
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The bad habit of nail-biting is much more common than you might think.
Some studies have found about one-quarter of children bite their nails habitually (Ghanizadeh & Shekoohi, 2011), others say it may peak at almost 45% in adolescence (Peterson ...
Jan 11
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New research shows China's controversial One Child Policy (OCP) has not only dramatically re-shaped the population, but has produced individuals lacking characteristics important for economic and social attainment.
In research published today in ...
Jan 11
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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What do you do if your teenage daughter is addicted to videogames and Internet porn?
For one South Korea family, the answer is to enroll your daughter in a horse riding therapy program.
And by all accounts, it did the trick.
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Jan 11
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Take a moment to look at yourself in the mirror. I want you to really examine your features—the curves, lines and shapes that make up your face. How broad is your chin? Narrow, or wide? How big is your mouth in comparison? Or your nose? Do you ...
Jan 10
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New research suggests that racial stereotypes and creativity have more in common than we might think.
In an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researcher Carmit Tadmor of Tel Aviv ...
Jan 10
Categories: Prejudice / Discrimination
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For academics claim to have shown that letting an infant cry itself to sleep is the best way to ensure a good night’s rest for all.
While most babies sleep through five or six night a week by the age of six months, according to the study by ...
Jan 10
GOWhen we remember our past selves, they seem quite different. We know how much our personalities and tastes have changed over the years. But when we look ahead, somehow we expect ourselves to stay the same, a team of psychologists said Thursday, ...
Jan 9
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Researchers, from the universities of Las Palmas and Navarra, assess the evidence into links between diet and depression and find it lacking. ”Depression is similar in many aspects to heart disease” they explained. “Both are associated with ...
Jan 9
Categories: Depression
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“ADHD medications turn kids into compliant zombies.”
“They’re only prescribed to simplify a parent’s job.”
“They boost the risk for drug abuse.”
“They change kids’ personalities.”
These are just some of the many ...
Jan 9
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Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium at the University of Notre Dame.
“Life ...
Jan 8
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Parenting
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With over a billion users worldwide, Facebook has become a fundamental part of social life. Much as there are long-standing unwritten rules governing the way we behave toward each other face-to-face, today there also exist cultural expectations for ...
Jan 8
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