As a boy, Robert Stone loved tales of “romantic adventure.” In the Navy he got to experience one himself, as a member of the Antarctic expedition “Operation Deep Freeze III.”

A developmental psychologist explains the surprising cognitive effect of having friends near.

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 […]

According to the renowned developmental psychologist, the fundamental traits for success are manifest at every stage of development.

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.

For teens, a tendency toward dangerous behavior is hard-wired into the brain. A developmental psychologist explains.

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 […]

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 […]

A developmental psychologist explains the three key measures that education reform must achieve.

A psychologist explains the latest research into education disparity.

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.

Juvenile recidivism is far from inevitable, it’s just a matter of employing techniques that actually work.

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.

A conversation with the Temple University psychologist.

The chairman of One Laptop per Child has also founded MIT’s Media Lab, invested in Web startups, and written a column for Wired. Which undertaking was the hardest?

As Rupert Murdoch dukes it out with Google, the founder of MIT’s Media Labs assesses how freely information will flow in the information age.

How the digital age has made an “omelet” out of life and work—and why that’s exactly the way we like it.

Twenty years after predicting the “Negroponte switch” between wired and wireless technologies, Nicholas Negroponte describes another advance that will soon seem inevitable: the convergence of “biology and silicone.”

The physical book will disappear, says Nicholas Negroponte. Teachers who resist dispensing with them because “laptops are distracting” must change their methods.