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April 25, 2024

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Eye-Opener: Pupils Enlarge When People Focus on Tasks

Apr. 22, 2024 — Normally, a person's pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person's pupils also dilate when they are concentrating on tasks. In particular, ...

More Synchrony Between Parents and Children Not Always Better

Apr. 9, 2024 — More synchrony between parents and children may not always be better, new research has revealed. For the first time a new study looked at behavioral and brain-to-brain synchrony in 140 families with a special focus on attachment. It looked at how ...

The Evolving Attitudes of Gen X Toward Evolution

Apr. 10, 2024 — As the centennial of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 approaches, a new study illustrates that the attitudes of Americans in Generation X toward evolution shifted as they ...

Everyday Social Interactions Predict Language Development in Infants

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this type of activity predicted enhanced language ...

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Exercise Habits in Youth Create Better Health Outcomes for Some

Apr. 3, 2024 — Forming a long-term recreational exercise habit as a young person has a beneficial impact on physical and mental health later in life, but some groups, such as females and academic high-achievers, ...

Are Universities Connected to Local Sustainability? A New Study Suggests Yes...and No.

Apr. 3, 2024 — A new study finds that universities scoring strongly on measures of sustainability are associated with innovation and economic growth in their ...

Early Detection of Language Disorders Helps Children Obtain Right Interventions

Apr. 2, 2024 — New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two ...

Mechanism Found to Determine Which Memories Last

Mar. 28, 2024 — Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day's experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study ...

2 in 3 Parents Say Their Adolescent or Teen Worries About How Sick Days May Impact Grades

Mar. 25, 2024 — Many parents recognize increasing mental health concerns among children, reflected by the 1 in 5 who say they're open to allowing a child to take a ...

Teacher Effectiveness for Students With and Without Disabilities

Mar. 25, 2024 — Research has often focused on how teachers and educators can best instruct and accommodate students with disabilities. However, are the methods used to teach students with disabilities effective and ...

High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery

Mar. 20, 2024 — A group of high school students from Oakland, California, made contributions to the field of exoplanet research. Researchers worked with the students to use backpack-sized digital smart telescopes. ...

Landmark Study Shows That 'Transcendent' Thinking May Grow Teens' Brains Over Time

Mar. 18, 2024 — Scientists find that adolescents who grapple with the bigger meaning of social situations experience greater brain growth, which predicts stronger ...

Feeling Apathetic? There May Be Hope

Mar. 18, 2024 — A new method that aims to help people develop grit looks ...

Study of Long-Term Student Engagement Challenges 'One Great Teacher' Narrative of Education

Mar. 14, 2024 — A positive relationship with a teacher at an early age may help children to feel more engaged with school, but not necessarily in the long term, new ...

Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News

Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...

Japan's Premodern Concept of Nature at Root of Distinctive Mindset in Early Childhood Education

Apr. 22, 2024 — Observers of Japanese early childhood education and care have pointed to the mindset of educators watching over and waiting on preschoolers as being an intriguing tendency. This mimamoru approach has ...

Gender Stereotypes in Schools Impact on Girls and Boys With Mental Health Difficulties, Study Finds

Apr. 17, 2024 — Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask their emotional distress through silence or disruptive ...

School Suspensions and Exclusions Put Vulnerable Children at Risk

Apr. 15, 2024 — Managing problematic student behavior is one of the most persistent, challenging, and controversial issues facing schools today. Yet despite best intentions to build a more inclusive and ...

Increasing Positive Affect in Adolescence Could Lead to Improved Health and Well-Being in Adulthood

Apr. 2, 2024 — Adolescents with high positive affect may have improved physical and mental health as adults, according to a new ...

Is It the School, or the Students?

Mar. 28, 2024 — School quality ratings significantly reflect the preparation of a school's students, not just the school's contribution to learning gains, according to new ...

Confusing Assistance Requirements Contribute to Food Insecurity Among College Students

Mar. 25, 2024 — Food insecurity among college students is associated with negative physical and mental health and lower academic performance and graduation rates. A recent research study investigates why over half ...

Lonely 12 Year-Olds Less Likely to Gain Employment in Adulthood

Mar. 14, 2024 — New research has found that there is a direct socioeconomic impact of loneliness in early adolescence. The research found that lonely young adults are more likely to be out of education, employment, ...

Study Tracks Shifts in Student Mental Health During College

Mar. 14, 2024 — Dartmouth researchers tracked more than 200 undergraduates for all four years of college to capture the most in-depth data yet on how students' self-esteem and mental health fluctuates during ...

Innovative Approaches for Addressing Difficult Topics in K-12 Schools

Mar. 13, 2024 — Three peer-reviewed journals have recently published research papers by Penn State's Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative. The papers illustrate how the initiative's programs help K-12 ...

Explicit Socioemotional Learning Can Have a Key Role in PE Lessons, Study Says

Mar. 13, 2024 — Teachers might be more motivated to help students engage with their emotions and build their resilience when this work is part of lessons, rather than as an add-on intervention, a new study has ...

Air Filters and Scheduled Window Opening Can Reduce Classroom Pollution by Up to 36%

Mar. 12, 2024 — To improve air quality in classrooms, schools should use air purifiers during the school day and open the windows after hours. That's according to a new ...

Happiness Can Be Learnt, but You Have to Work at It

Mar. 11, 2024 — We can learn to be happy, but only get lasting benefits if we keep practicing, a new study has ...

No, an Anti-Racist Program in Schools Didn't Stress out Kids, Study Finds

Mar. 11, 2024 — A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause ...

'Study Drugs' Set the Stage for Other Drug Use and Mental Health Decline

Mar. 11, 2024 — Taking 'study drugs' like Adderall without a diagnosis is not only dangerous in itself, but can lead to other drug use and a decline in mental health, according to new ...

Natural History Specimens Have Never Been So Accessible

Mar. 11, 2024 — Researchers have painstakingly taken computed topography (CT) scans of more than 13,000 individual specimens to create 3D images of more than half of all the world's animal groups, including ...

Small Class Sizes Not Better for Pupils' Grades or Resilience, Says Study

Mar. 8, 2024 — Smaller class sizes in schools are failing to increase the resilience of children from low-income families, according to a new ...

Lack of Focus Doesn't Equal Lack of Intelligence -- It's Proof of an Intricate Brain

Mar. 8, 2024 — Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It's a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a ...

Drawings of Mathematical Problems Predict Their Resolution

Mar. 7, 2024 — Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand ...

Airflow Dynamics Scrub Classroom Air

Mar. 6, 2024 — Accounting for airflow dynamics rather than just airflow volume helped researchers measure an 85% reduction in airborne pathogens inside a working ...