Children begin to seek evidence that enables them to test fishy-sounding claims in early elementary school, suggests a study in Developmental Psychology. Researchers showed 191 Chinese preschool – and elementary-school-age children (ages 3 to 8) several different-size Russian nesting...

Listeners can recognize emotions such as sadness and joy in singers’ voices, even absent linguistic and melodic cues, finds research in Psychomusicology:Music, Mind, and Brain. Researchers asked eight opera singers to sing the standard musical scale with the meaningless...

Boys at risk of developing psychopathy don’t have the same urge to join in group laughter than most people do, finds a study in Current Biology. Researchers tested 62 11- to 16-year-old boys diagnosed with disruptive behaviors, along with...