A Fresh Look At Antidepressants Finds Low Risk Of Youth Suicide
In 2004, after an extensive review, the Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning to doctors who prescribed antidepressants to teens and children. Antidepressants, the FDA said, appeared to...
View ArticlePediatricians: More Patients Want To Change Their Gender
The March issue of the medical journal Pediatrics features an editorial looking at gender identity disorder in children. Pediatricians apparently are seeing more young patients who express an interest...
View ArticleTo Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The Pronouns
On a recent Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Their goal was love, or maybe sex, or maybe some combination of the two. They were there for speed...
View ArticlePsychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Enron, Worldcom, Bernie Madoff, the subprime mortgage crisis. Over the past decade or so, news stories about unethical behavior have been a regular feature on TV, a long, discouraging parade of...
View ArticleSmall Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up
On a recent Monday morning in Washington, D.C., a group of 3-year-old preschoolers bumbled their way into a circle, more or less, on the rug of their classroom. It was time to read. The children sat...
View ArticleWould Judge Give Psychopath With Genetic Defect Lighter Sentence?
In 1991, a man named Stephen Mobley robbed a Domino's pizza in Hall County, Ga., and shot the restaurant manager dead. Crimes like this happen all the time, but this particular case became a national...
View ArticleCan We Learn To Forget Our Memories?
Around 10 years ago, Malcolm MacLeod got interested in forgetting. For most people, the tendency to forget is something we spend our time cursing. Where are my keys? What am I looking for in the...
View ArticleTeachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform
In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.
View ArticleCharming, Cold: Does Presidential Personality Matter?
As part of NPR's coverage of this year's presidential election, All Things Considered asked three science reporters to weigh in on the race. The result is a three-part series on the science of...
View ArticleJersey Shore Storm Survivors Face Uncertain Future
The barrier islands off the coast of New Jersey were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy, and for the moment, most residents are banned from living in their homes because the area is far too damaged. Which is...
View ArticleStruggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade...
View ArticleGive And Take: How The Rule Of Reciprocation Binds Us
In 1974, Phillip Kunz and his family got a record number of Christmas cards. In the weeks before Christmas they came daily, sometimes by the dozen. Kunz still has them in his home, collected in an old...
View ArticleWeekend Vote Will Bring Controversial Changes To Psychiatrists' Bible
This weekend, 20 people from around the country will meet in a nondescript hotel room in Arlington, Va., and take a vote. A passing stranger who stumbled on this group wouldn't see much of anything,...
View ArticleShootings Leave Sandy Hook Survivors Rethinking The Odds
About a month ago, Declan Procaccini's 10-year-old son woke him early in the morning in a fright."He came into my bedroom and said, 'Dad, I had a horrible, horrible dream!'" Procaccini says. "He was...
View ArticleMercy For Robots? Experiment Tests How Humans Relate To Machines
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View ArticleWhy Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight
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View ArticleTo Spot Kids Who Will Overcome Poverty, Look At Babies
Why do some children who grow up in poverty do well, while others struggle?To understand more about this, a group of psychologists recently did a study.It began in a small spare room where a series of...
View ArticleNew Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade
Ever since she was a small child, Samantha Grimaldo has had to carry her voice with her.Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, which means that though she's physically capable in...
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