Kind Kids, Closer Friends: Altruism Shapes Children’s Friendships and Loneliness
A new study of 293 Greek fifth-graders shows that altruism and concern for others play distinct roles in shaping children's ...
Tag: developmental psychology
Shared smiles with caregivers may shape babies’ emotional development
Two new studies find that mutual smiling between infants and caregivers is linked to increases in heart-rate variability and becomes ...
Parenting patterns linked to children’s behavioral and emotional problems, large US study finds
A new PLOS One study of more than 2,700 US children found that parenting profiles combining low supervision and inconsistent ...
Tiny Wearable Sensors Reveal How Much of a Baby’s Day Is Spent Restrained
Researchers trained a machine learning model on wearable inertial sensor data to measure, with 89 percent accuracy, how much of ...
Childhood Trauma and Teen Anxiety: Giant Study Reveals When the Mind’s Network Runs Hottest
A study of 28,482 Chinese adolescents using a physics-inspired metric called network temperature shows that the psychological network linking childhood ...
Who Decides If a Child Is Ready for School? New Study Says Everyone Does
A qualitative study of Turkish teachers and parents finds that school readiness is not a fixed childhood threshold but a ...
Childhood Stress Without Violence Still Echoes Into Adult Distress, Landmark Study Finds
A longitudinal study of nearly 2,000 Taiwanese adults shows that nonviolent childhood adversities fuel midlife psychological distress through distinct loneliness ...
Social Skills, Not Personality, Carry the Link Between Parenting Styles and Happiness
A new Spanish study of 456 students and parents finds that social skills, rather than personality, are consistently linked to ...
From baby smiles to orangutan play faces: how emotional expressions shape behaviour
A new Royal Society special issue shows that emotional expressions, from infant smiles to shame and play faces, actively shape ...
Science Has a Teen AI Problem: Experts Map What Must Be Studied Now
A new mixed-methods study of 141 developmental experts maps the research priorities, barriers, and immediate guardrails needed as AI chatbots ...
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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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