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Harlow’s Classic Studies Revealed the Importance of Maternal …
WEBJun 20, 2018 · Harry Harlow’s empirical work with primates is now considered a “classic” in behavioral science, revolutionizing our understanding of the role that social relationships play in early development.
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The Bias Beneath: Two Decades of Measuring Implicit Associations
WEBFeb 1, 2018 · Over the last 20 years, millions of people have used an online test to probe attitudes they didn’t know they had. Since its online debut in 1998, the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has allowed people to discover potential prejudices that lurk beneath their awareness — and that researchers therefore wouldn’t find through participant self-reports.
Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination
WEBMar 29, 2013 · The idea is that procrastinators calculate the fluctuating utility of certain activities: pleasurable ones have more value early on, and tough tasks become more important as a deadline approaches. Psychologists like Ferrari and Pychyl, on the other hand, see flaws in such a strictly temporal view of procrastination.
The Littlest Linguists: New Research on Language Development
WEBDec 29, 2021 · How do children learn language, and how is language related to other cognitive and social skills? For decades, the specialized field of developmental psycholinguistics has studied how children acquire language—or multiple languages—taking into account biological, neurological, and social factors that influence linguistic developments and, in turn, can play a role in how children learn and ...
The Psychological Study of Smiling
WEBFeb 11, 2011 · In a more recent study, published this year in Psychological Science, Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger of Wayne State University extended this line of research from emotional outcomes to a biological one: longevity. Abel and Kruger rated the smiles of professional baseball players captured in a 1952 yearbook, then …
Breakthroughs and Discoveries in Psychological Science: 2020 Year …
WEBDec 29, 2020 · Violent Video Games and Aggression: The Connection Is Dubious, at Best: The coronavirus pandemic put a damper on many traditional summertime activities for kids, giving them more opportunity to socialize with friends virtually through online gaming.But many hours of extra screen time worried some parents, especially in light of a 2015 report linking violent video games with aggressive behavior ...
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How Culture Affects the Way We Think
WEBAug 1, 2007 · Wang’s research shows that culture affects the amount of detail one recalls, the reference to individuals themselves or other people and social context, and the ability to retrieve the memory after an elapsed time period. Wang said that “the remembering of the self is a cultural process that gives rise to both commonality and diversity in ...
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