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A sample of articles on social contact and well-being and health, motives and cultural variations in behavior, placebos and movies, lifespan learning and workplace implications, prenatal hormones and gendered behavior, children's reputation management, and social emotions. More
New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Even when young competitors show tremendous promise in a specialized sport, they’re likely to emerge better adult athletes if they take a more multidisciplinary approach. More
What Makes a Champion? Varied Practice, Not Single-Sport Drilling
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Observing the way readers' eyes move can predict how voters will respond to real world ballot measures. More
Direct Democracy: Readers’ Eye Movements May Predict Votes on Ballot Measures
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Researchers have developed a method to experimentally evaluate how parents use what they know about their children's language when they talk to them. More
Under the Cortex: Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge
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New research published in the journal Psychological Science reveals that handwriting plays a valuable part in language instruction, helping people learn certain skills far faster than they can by typing or watching videos. More
Handwriting Beats Typing and Watching Videos for Learning to Read
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New research shows that certain illusions can collapse when we use our hands to describe an action. More
Gesturing Reduces Effect of a Classic Optical Illusion, Study Finds