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Were French People Born to Speak French?
Linguistic anthropologists have observed that people all over the world perceive languages, and speakers of those different languages, as fundamentally different from one another. When people listen to others’ speech, they hear discrete categorical boundaries
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on developmental disorders, the development of regret and its impact on decisions, a framework for understanding emotions, how to improve children’s language, and a new model of working memory.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on moral concerns and emotional responses, how children use probability to infer happiness, and implicit gender bias in descriptions of expected elections results.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language style and social networks, the cultural differences that affect the relationship between aging and well-being, and how infant and adult brains interact while they communicate.
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The Science of Getting Over It
Despite our commitment to 24/7 news, unlimited-data plans, and bottomless mimosas, nothing lasts forever. So how should we handle life’s endings and last hurrahs? Should we rage against the dying of the light, or be content
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Beyond Words
Babies don’t learn language just by listening to speech, but also through what they see and how they move. This and other findings from APS William James Fellow Janet F. Werker.
