What teens and tweens need most from parents
As kids move through adolescence, changes in their brains make them less or more amenable to parental involvement in their lives.
Psychology
Helping ‘mean girls’ can also help the boys
Mean girls use gossip and social exclusion, not physical violence, to bully others. If schools can stop them, boys and non-targeted girls also benefit.
Teens less sexually active than 15 years ago
Risk aversion and a flood of media activity about campus sexual assault may have cramped the style of today's young adults when it comes to sexual activity.
US teen beauty becomes standardized
The Miss Teen USA pageant showed that, sometimes, standardized qualities, like teen beauty, pay off; they don't in other cases, though.
Teens learn better from rewards than punishments
Risky adolescent behavior is well documented, but why does it happen and how can it be helped? Computational analysis has a few answers.
Playing outdoors can improve kids’ well-being
Kids today spend too much time with smartphones and not enough playing outdoors, a new study out of Scotland finds.
Genetics may play a role in abnormal psych
The role of genetics is being investigated, as scientists look for a way to treat patients with autism, ADHD, depression, and schizophrenia.
Drawing words helps you remember them
You might be better off drawing about stuff you need to learn than writing it out in words. It's a caveman-like strategy, yes, but it works.
Efficient ignorance is key to paying attention
From Johns Hopkins, training people to pay attention to important details amid noise and garbage details that need to be filtered out.
College students can easily find stimulants
It's not hard for college students to find (and abuse) prescription drugs on campus, according to a new survey from Ohio State.