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Kids Want Fame More Than Anything
Huffington Post: “This is America, where everyone has the right to life, love and the pursuit of fame.” — Ryan Seacrest, American Idol, 2010 In the new millennium, people face messages highlighting the significance of
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Lads’ mags, sexism, and research in psychology: an interview with Dr. Peter Hegarty (part 2)
Scientific American: In this post, I continue my interview with Dr. Peter Hegarty, a social psychologist at the University of Surrey and one of the authors of ” ‘Lights on at the end of the
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Lectures from The Floating University
The Wall Street Journal: Last month, we hosted a few videos from The Floating University, which creates multimedia curricula on inter-disciplinary topics. Here, links to several more: Saul Levmore, William B. Graham Distinguished Professor of
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‘Educational TV’ for Babies? It Doesn’t Exist
TIME: If there was any doubt that television is not a good use of toddlers’ time, consider the findings of one study that drilled down into babies’ understanding of what they were watching on TV.
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Profanity on TV Linked to Foul-Mouthed Kids
U.S. News & World Report: Is TV turning our kids into fountains of four-letter words? Maybe so, says a new study that finds a link between foul-mouthed inner-city children and profanity-ridden shows and video games.
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SpongeBob impairs little kids’ thinking, study finds
Los Angeles Times: Watching just a short bit of the wildly popular kids TV show “SpongeBob SquarePants” has been known to give many parents headaches. Psychologists have now found that a brief exposure to SpongeBob