Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

Also, don't offer screen-time as a reward for good behavior.
"History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer," wrote the author of a recent study.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
"The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone," a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.
A new study has identified specific genes that seem to play an integral part in characterizing the behavior of dog breeds.
The study suggest implicit biases can change significantly over a relatively short timeframe.