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Following the Crowd: Brain Images Offer Clues to How and Why We Conform


Following the Crowd: Brain Images Offer Clues to How and Why We Conform

What is conformity? A true adoption of what other people think—or a guise to avoid social rejection? Scientists have been vexed sorting the two out, even when they’ve questioned people in private.... More>


The Stanford Marshmallow Test


Kids Learn to Work Together Early, Study Finds


Young Children Choose to Share Prizes After Working Together

Grownups have a good sense of what's fair. Research now shows that this is true for young children, too. In a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, three-year-old children shared with a peer after they worked together to earn a reward, even in situations where it would be easy for one child to keep all of the spoils for himself.... More>