A five-minute role-play session with a doll shortly before the birth of a couple’s first child predicted the quality of fathers’ later parenting skills, reports a study in the Journal of Family Psychology. Researchers videotaped 182 expectant U.S. fathers during the third...
Advisers with experience and expertise may sound good on paper, but in high-pressure moments people are more likely to choose advisers who are enthusiastic about them and their goals, suggests research in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Researchers conducted five online...
The more people understand how and why “nudges” are put in place, the more they accept their use, according to research in Behavioral Public Policy. Researchers presented 1,715 participants with examples of behavioral interventions used by the government and the private...
Prospective teachers are more likely to misperceive Black children as angry compared with white children, according to research in Emotion. Researchers asked 178 prospective teachers, enrolled in education programs at U.S. universities and primarily white and female, to watch...
During the coronavirus outbreak, children with autism are facing many different life changes which may be suspension from both school and essential services that they are used to having in their everyday routine. Here are a few tips to...
A mother’s stress rubs off on her children, even if she tries to hide it, suggests research in the Journal of Family Psychology. U.S. researchers fitted 107 parents and their children ages 7 to 11 with electrocardiogram sensors to measure sympathetic nervous...
Anxiety may be associated with a reduced ability to adapt to negative and uncertain social conditions, according to research in Psychological Science. Researchers recruited 350 U.S. participants–about a quarter of whom had symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder–to play a trust...
A small portion of the amygdala blunts pain by dampening the activity of multiple pain-processing regions of the brain, suggests research with mice in Nature Neuroscience. Researchers used fluorescent markers to hunt for brain regions activated by surgical anesthetics. This...
A study in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity points to the risk and protective factors for mental health problems linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March 21 and March 28, 2020, 3,480 residents of Spain ages 18 to 80 completed an online survey...
Babies born into bilingual homes change the focus of their visual attention more frequently and more quickly than babies in monolingual homes, according to research in Royal Society Open Science. Researchers tracked the gaze of 102 infants ages 7 to 9 months...