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 Science, Professors Lisa Cameron and Lata Gangadharan from Monash University, Professor Xin Meng from ...
Date Posted: January 11, 2013
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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Understanding how thoughts of mortality influence individuals’ beliefs sheds light on the commonalities among different groups’ motivations and could help ease tensions between opposing viewpoints, according to University of Missouri experiments ...
Jan 8
Categories: Religious Issues
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Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) can be defined as the ability to understand, manage, and effectively express one's own feelings, as well as engage and navigate successfully with those of others. According to Talent Smart, 90% of high performers at ...
Jan 7
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A person’s style of speech — not just the pitch of his or her voice — may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a University of Colorado Boulder researcher who studied transgender people ...
Jan 7
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Newborn babies respond differently to their mother tongue as compared to foreign languages thanks to all the listening they did while in the womb, a joint study by American and Swedish researchers suggests.
The results of the study, which will be ...
Jan 7
GONo one is indifferent to the image in the mirror. At some point between rolling out of bed and stepping out the door, we perform the ritual of grooming. The sociologist Erving Goffman likened grooming to “backstage” preparations in the theater ...
Jan 5
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Physical inactivity is a major public health problem that has both social and neurobiological causes. According to the results of an Ipsos survey published on Monday 31 December, the French have put “taking up a sport” at the top of their list ...
Jan 5
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