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Praising a Preschooler for Being Smart Can Backfire, International Study Finds
Telling a child how smart he or she is comes naturally to a lot of parents and early-childhood educators, but a new study of preschool children in China suggests that may do more harm than
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Birth Order Has Little Effect on Narrow Personality Traits
With mixed findings and multiple plausible explanations, the question remains: How does birth order relate to personality?
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President Trump believes in IQ tests. He’s not wrong.
The Washington Post: Most scientists feel a certain nervousness when the topic they research appears in the news. Overstatement is par for the course, misunderstanding a near-inevitability. But what could be more cringe-worthy than the
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Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?
Scientific American: We all probably know someone who is intelligent, but does surprisingly stupid things. My family delights in pointing out times when I (a professor) make really dumb mistakes. What does it mean to
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Praising Kids’ Smarts May Lead to Cheating
Children who are praised for their intelligence may cheat to maintain their reputation.
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Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”?
Scientific American: At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society. Sternberg, who
