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An American Airlines plane has crashed in Jamaica injuring 40 after it overshot the runway, according to aviation authority reports.
Let us now praise Sir Harry Evans. Why not? We thought we knew him, but now we know so much more. Memoir is best when performed by those who did […]
Bloggers, as most know, are exceptionally lazy people. Mostly, we sit around in our underwear playing flash games. Only occasionally do we get off the sofa to whip off some […]
Henrietta Lacks, a thirty-one year old African American mother of five from Baltimore, died of cervical cancer in 1951. By the time she passed away, her cancer cells had been […]
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A developmental psychologist explains the surprising cognitive effect of having friends near.
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The Temple professor initially believed that early puberty caused conflict between girls and their parents. Then he was "blown away" when his research showed the reverse connection: family conflict led […]
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According to the renowned developmental psychologist, the fundamental traits for success are manifest at every stage of development.
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A developmental psychologist explains the latest findings into the nature vs. nurture debate, highlighting the need to break down the false dichotomy between genes and the environment.
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For teens, a tendency toward dangerous behavior is hard-wired into the brain. A developmental psychologist explains.
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Studies almost unanimously show that unstructured, unsupervised time is a recipe for disaster for adolescents in terms of risk and reckless behavior. So what steps can be taken to curb […]
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The ‘just don’t do it’ approach to teen prevention programs, which underlies programs from DARE to Driver’s Ed, relies on the fallacious notion that adolescent behavior is based on knowledge […]
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A developmental psychologist explains the three key measures that education reform must achieve.
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A psychologist explains the latest research into education disparity.
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A psychologist explains a study into how racial associations affect expectations of guilt.
An expert in adolescent psychology outlines the main features of bad parenting.
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Juvenile recidivism is far from inevitable, it’s just a matter of employing techniques that actually work.
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Over the last several years, teenagers have been subject to increasingly severe sentencing. A psychologist explains why this justice system reflects a major misunderstanding of the adolescent brain.
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A conversation with the Temple University psychologist.
This week’s interviews for What Went Wrong? offers a glimpse into the world of the academy, and its culpability in causing the economic crisis of 2008. We sat down with […]
In a Hollywood that became increasingly politicized (some moviegoers would say “boring”) over the past five years, James Cameron is generally considered a-political. Among the all-time box office kings, the […]