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Pre-Natal Learning: Developing Food Preferences in the Womb

Expecting mothers often worry that the food they eat may somehow affect their baby. Is this true? If a mother consumes large quantities of carrot juice, will the baby like the taste of carrot? This is...

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How to Get Your Child to Eat Their Veggies

Parents often wonder about how they can make their children eat healthy foods. Approaches can range from being a bossy “veggies are good for you!” to “if you eat your veggies, you’ll get a new toy!” to...

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Bilingual Babies Might Be Smarter

Well, maybe not smarter, but new research suggests bilingual infants have more flexible cognitive functions. Parents often assume that exposing their children to a different language will boost...

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Our Creative Thinking Research Lab in the News

Caren Walker with a young subject in the Creative Thinking Research Lab at the Bay Area Discovery Museum Caren Walker, a graduate student in CCC Advisor Alison Gopnik’s developmental psychology lab at...

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Language and Alien Toys – Improving Learning

Are children able to learn the words of any community to the same extent? This is an interesting question, with considerable implications for education. Recently, Annette Henderson of the University of...

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Why You Shouldn’t Tell Your Child How to Play

Decades of research have explored the multi-faceted benefits of play for children of all ages. Young children start to play with each other in early toddlerhood, and peers and parents are important to...

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Babies: Not Just Monkey See Monkey Do

We know young children often imitate the behavior of others. Current research shows that children’s cognitive capacities enable them to be highly selective with their imitative behaviors. In a...

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Impact of Adult Language on Children’s Beliefs

According to decades of research within various areas of psychology, statements such as “boys are good at math” communicate that there exists an essence that is intrinsic to boys that makes them “good...

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