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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 […]
What do the Egyptian pyramids, the Mona Lisa and George Clooney’s face all have in common? The “golden ratio” according to The Independent writer Steve Connor.
A new study, dubbed the “smiley scale”, has ranked each American state by happiness – revealing that dwellers of the Big Apple were the least, er smiley.
The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was in town four days before the fall of Kabul in November 2001 in “remarkably good spirits” before slipping indefinitely from U.S grasp.
The Washington Post’s columnist Richard Cohen asks what happens if you’re both sick and poor? What do you do if you have no health insurance?
Despite Pentagon denial of safety breaches, an anonymous U.S Air Force official is claiming that Iraqi militants are staying a step ahead of American forces by intercepting surveillance feeds.
The angels, cherubs and putti depicted in Christmas nativity scenes are “anatomically flawed” according to a scientist who claims they would never be able to fly with their flimsy wings.
A new Pentagon study is warning the Obama administration about overspending in Afghanistan by revealing that the US Army wasted billions of dollars on the Iraq war.
A 125m-year-old dinosaur species resembling a bird used venom to subdue its prey according to a new theory based on the shape of some of the creature’s teeth.