Universities’ Messages About Socioeconomic Diversity Can Affect Academic Confidence
December 14, 2015 – from NORTHWESTERN NOW
Students are academically affected by cues about campus climate
2015 Research News
December
INCREASED INTERNET USE AND POORER ABILITY TO MANAGE EMOTIONS IN YOUTH AT HIGH-RISK FOR PSYCHOSIS
December 1, 2015 – from NCBI
November
Native Americans should not be left out of Thanksgiving
November 26, 2015 – from Aljazeera America
Americans of all backgrounds need to be more honest about the holiday’s ugly history
What The [Beep]? Infants Link New Communicative Signals to Meaning
November 2, 2015 – from NORTHWESTERN NOW
Infants have social capacity to recognize new communicative signals in their environment
September
Cerebellar Circuit Development Continues Into Young Adulthood
September 22, 2015 – from Science Direct
August
The precision of 12-month-old infants’ link between language and categorization predicts vocabulary size at 12 and 18 months
August 31, 2015 – from Frontiers in Psychology
July
Aha! Close Your Eyes for Inspiration
July 23, 2015 – from Association for Psychological Science
The Paradox of Effort: A Medical Case Against Too Much Self-Control
July 16, 2015 – from The Atlantic
June
For Couples, Time Can Upend the Laws of Attraction
June 20, 2015 – from The New York Times
Weakening Memories of Crime through Deliberate Suppression
June 2, 2015 – from Health Canal
May
Gender and racial bias can be 'unlearnt' during sleep, new study suggests
May 28, 2015 – from The Guardian
Playing auditory cues during sleep partially undid biases, raising possibility of using the technique to make permanent behavioural changes
April
Explaining Jeb Bush’s ‘Hispanic’ Error
April 9, 2015 – from The New York Times
March
Creative Genius Driven by Distraction
March 3, 2015 – from NORTHWESTERN NOW
Research links creativity with inability to filter irrelevant sensory information
February
US women progress to PhD at same rate as men
February 17, 2015 – from Nature
Pipeline for female scientists is no longer leaking between bachelor's and graduate studies.
Societally-Engaged Adults See Their Lives as Redemption Stories
February 9, 2015 – from Association for Psychology Science
In Defense of Tinder
February 6, 2015 – from The News York Times
January
Human speech's surprising influence on young infants
January 5, 2015 – from Eurek Alert
Listening to human speech has consequences for infants that go beyond learning words