… Even grandparents, aunts or uncles in the same country as babies born during Covid-19 have been kept away by travel restrictions and other precautions. Darby Saxbe, an associate professor at the University of Southern California, said her lab started following 760 expectant parents in the spring of 2020 to More
Science examines how physical surroundings affect children’s development. More
From our homes and neighborhoods to the world beyond, the environment and human behavior are mutually and inextricably dependent on each other. These five articles investigate. More
They’re calling it a “lost year.” On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground. … They reason they’ll be fine is built right into the biology of early adolescence, explained Laurence Steinberg More
APS Fellows Mesmin Destin and Seth Pollak have received a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in psychology. More
Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study released today by UCLA’s Language Acquisition Lab and 16 other labs around the globe. The study found that babies who were exposed to two languages had a More
