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Are Picture Books Warping How Kids Understand Animals?

Anthropomorphizing animals is a bad strategy for education, a new study suggests.

It decreases the formation of carcinogenic material.

When it comes to driving pro-environmental behavior, provincial norms are the most effective.

Delivery matters: Authorities give orders in a way that minimizes psychological impact for the soldiers who carry out these crimes.

A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.

Are preschool teachers influenced in their evaluations of young children by race?

New textual analysis of Billboard Hot 100 hits shows that certain themes are more likely to be No. 1.

"Gamifying" stress therapy might make treatment a lot more fun.

A new study disputes the empathy theory.

All of those hangovers could be costing the country a lot of workdays.