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Handwriting Beats Typing and Watching Videos for Learning to Read
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.
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Research Briefs
Recent research highlights from APS journals, including work on extremism, caregiver mental health, and a typology for unpublished studies.
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¡Hola! Cómo estás? Speaking Spanish May Protect Your Heart
Spanish may influence how individuals build emotion schemas and appraise stress.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on repressed memories, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), creativity, self-perception, experimentation and validity, how speaking Spanish might protect against stress, science communication, and moral reasoning.
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¡Hola! Cómo estás? Speaking Spanish May Protect Your Heart
By providing wider access to emotion words, creating the potential for more optimism, and enhancing social relations, the Spanish language may influence how individuals build emotion schemas and appraise stress, influencing cardiovascular reactivity and recovery.
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UCLA Study: Babies in Bilingual Households Respond Better to ‘Baby Talk’
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
