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George Washington Trumps Pinocchio When It Comes to Promoting Honesty in Kids
Pacific Standard: Once upon a time, a group of researchers began to wonder whether telling children traditional stories meant to instill a sense of honesty actually worked. So they took three classic tales, shared them
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Dads Who Do Dishes Raise Ambitious Daughters
New York Magazine: Dads who equally divided the drudgery of household chores with their wives tended to have daughters whose “when I grow up” aspirations were less gender-stereotypical, suggests an upcoming paper in Psychological Science. Moms’ work-equality beliefs
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Dads Who Do Household Chores Boost Daughters Career Aspirations
Business Standard: A new study suggests that dads who help with household chores are more likely to raise daughters who aspire to less traditional, and potentially higher paying, careers. The study shows how parents sharing
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How Long Does the ‘Cool Kid’ Effect Last?
The Wall Street Journal: A University of Virginia study tracked teenagers for one decade and found that teenagers who were considered “cool” at a young age had more problems as adults. University of Virginia psychology
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In Pitching Veggies to Kids, Less Is More
The New York Times: One of the fiercest marketing battles in the world takes place in kitchens and at dining room tables across the world. The sellers are parents, trying everything to persuade their children
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The Search for Psychology’s Lost Boy
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The grainy, black-and-white footage, filmed in 1919 and 1920, documents what has become a classic psychology experiment, described again and again in articles and books. The idea is that the baby
