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Checking Off Symptoms Online Affects Our Perceptions of Risk
You’ve been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A half-hour later, you’re convinced it’s nothing serious—or afraid you have cancer. More than 60 percent of Americans get their health information online, and a
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3 Parenting Dilemmas SOLVED
Men’s Health: It’s no small feat beating TV and video games in the battle for your kids’ attention, but here’s one way to win: Just point your finger. In a new study, University of Virginia
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Who’s in the Know? To a Preschooler, the Person Doing the Pointing
If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That’s a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. As part
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Simine Vazire
Washington University in St. Louis www.simine.com What does your research focus on? My research examines people’s knowledge about their own personalities. Do people know how they behave? Do they know how others see them? I
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Michael C. Frank
Stanford University, USA http://langcog.stanford.edu What does your research focus on? I study the intersection between social cognition and language acquisition: I try to understand how the social context of interactions between children and caregivers provides
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Katherine Kinzler
The University of Chicago, USA http://dsclab.uchicago.edu What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the development of social cognition. I believe that studying early development is essential for understanding the nature and potential
