At-risk children who participate in the federal Head Start preschool program are less likely to end up in foster care than those who don’t, finds a study in Children and Youth Services Review. Researchers analyzed data on nearly 2,000...

Babies of anxious mothers are more attuned to threats than other babies are, suggests a study in Emotion. Researchers used eye-tracking technology to follow the gazes of 98 babies, ages 4 months to 24 months, as they watched pictures...

Telling children that they’re smart may induce them to cheat when stakes are high, suggests research in Psychological Science. Researchers asked 150 3-year-old and 150 5-year-old children to play a guessing game in which they had to guess whether...

A 12-hour sexual assault prevention training program for first-year college women reduced the number of attempted rapes those women experienced by 64 percent–and the number of completed rapes by 31 percent–two years later, compared with a control group in...

Bullying costs California schools hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost funding, suggests an analysis in School Psychology Quarterly. That’s because many states, including California, allocate funding based on average attendance numbers, not enrollment–so when students miss...

People feel more satisfied with their lives when they experience the emotions that they want to experience, regardless of whether those emotions are pleasant or unpleasant, suggests a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Researchers surveyed 2,324...

Our genes shape the way we look at the world in the most literal sense, suggests a study in nature. Researchers recorded the eye movements of 338 toddlers as they watches videos of common scenes, like children playing and...

People who hear voices in their heads but are not mentally ill may be better at detecting distorted speech sounds than other people are, finds a studying in Brain. Researchers used fMRI to image the brains of 12 non-mentally...

Children who start school younger than most of their peers may be at slightly elevated risk for mental health difficulties, suggests a study in Child: Care, Health and Development.Researchers examined data from a survey of more than 2,000 5-to...

Children with food allergies have higher levels of anxiety than those without, finds research in the Journal of Pediatrics. The researchers surveyed 80 children, ages 4 to 12, and their caregivers. Most of the participants were from families of...