Kids Trust Hard Workers Over Naturally Gifted Teachers, Study Finds
A new study of 220 children shows that by middle childhood, kids prefer to learn from and befriend people who ...
Tag: Communications Psychology
Across 22 Nations, the Urge to Copy Your Neighbour Proves Remarkably Universal
A large preregistered study across 22 culturally diverse nations finds that automatic imitation is robust everywhere, with little evidence that ...
Positive Parenting Shapes the Adolescent Brain’s Response to Joy, 15-Year Study Finds
A 15-year longitudinal study from the University of Notre Dame links positive parenting at age three to stronger neural reward ...
Umpires Are Bayesian Brains: Count Bias in Baseball Calls Reveals Rational Perception
A study of 451,172 Major League Baseball pitches shows that umpires' count-dependent strike zone shifts follow the mathematics of Bayesian ...
Do Social Media Detox Studies Hold Up? A Landmark Review Says the Evidence Is Shaky
A scoping review of 45 social media detox studies finds pervasive methodological weaknesses and a stark mismatch between the evidence ...
New open-source toolbox SPREAD measures how behaviours catch between people
Researchers at the University of Konstanz have developed SPREAD, an open-source R framework that uses permutation-based null models to quantify ...
New Parents’ Emotions Rise and Fall Together, GPS-Tracking Study Reveals
A Danish experience-sampling study using Bayesian coupled-oscillator models and GPS verification shows that new mothers and fathers regulate their own ...
Babies Almost Never See Classic Emotional Expressions on Real Faces, Study Finds
A longitudinal video analysis shows that infants between 6 and 17 months rarely see the hypothesized facial prototypes for emotions ...
When Scientists Question Themselves: Epistemic Reflexivity Meets AI-Augmented Research
A new perspective in Communications Psychology argues that scientists using AI tools must adopt systematic epistemic reflexivity to protect the ...
Blink Rate in Early Childhood May Signal the Brain’s Executive Function Origins
New research links spontaneous blink rate in early childhood to the neural origins of executive function, suggesting blinking may serve ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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