Reenvisioning Graduate School

Carolyn Davies envisions ways that graduate programs and students can improve graduate training and empower other students. More

What Do We Want Our Scientific Discourse to Look Like?

Psychological scientist Alison Ledgerwood curates a discussion on what scientific discourse has become in the age of social media and how it might evolve to be more productive. More

What Science Says—and Doesn’t—about Spanking

Scientific American: To spank or not to spank? This age-old parenting question elicits fierce debate among parents, psychologists and pediatricians. Surveys suggest that nearly half of U.S. parents have spanked their children as a disciplinary tactic, but many experts argue that this form of punishment—hitting a child on the bottom More

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Mother Jones: Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one brisk day during the spring of 2013 when a call came from the principal at her school. Will, a third-grader with a history of acting up in class, was flipping out on the playground. He’d taken off his belt and More

Hard Work, Hard Times: Self-control and Joblessness

The Huffington Post: A big part of parenting is teaching kids self-control. Yes, sugary snacks do taste good, but even so, we shouldn’t eat them too often. Yes, we know that math homework may not always be fun, but it must come before TV. Yes, soccer practice may seem tedious More

Talking to Your Child After You Yell

The Wall Street Journal: Nearly every parent loses control and screams at the children now and then. But what if you do it repeatedly?Researchers suspect parents are yelling more. Parents have been conditioned to avoid spanking, so they vent their anger and frustration by shouting instead. Three out of four More

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