Q&A: How Kids Learn Prejudices, Stereotypes
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How do children respond to stereotypes about race, religion and gender? A child-development expert looks at contradictions in kids' behavior.
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In groups, people unconsciously tend to mimic the demeanor of those around them.
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"Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking" (The Penguin Press, 257 pages, $23.95), by Aoibheann Sweeney: No one thinks they're weird when they're a little kid. It takes the taunts of schoolmates or older siblings before a youngster gets self-conscious about the things that make them different.
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For some, a new study validates concerns of too much positive reinforcement of the young. Others say it lacks needed nuance.
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Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.
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A recent behavioral study demonstrated that animals understand and react to the concept of fairness. In the study, monkeys were given unequal rewards for completing equal tasks.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.
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Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers.
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NEW YORK  - Even young children can paint a  picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't  always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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NEW YORK  - Ten-year olds who spend more  time engaging in activities typically associated with their  gender tend to have more stereotypical academic interests,  skills and characteristics two years later, new research  reports.
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A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity Into a Competitive Edge By Kenneth Arroyo Roldan and Gary M. Stern Collins, 304 pages, $22.95
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"The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 388 pages, $26), by Richard Thompson Ford: The fight against racism is nearing a crossroads, a "crisis of success" that's blurring definitions of discrimination and allowing insidious injustices to persist unaddressed.
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One family's struggle with their son's behavioural problems in mainstream schools.
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Where do stereotypes, like jokes about dumb blondes, come from? An armchair economic analysis suggests some intriguing possibilities.
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Trying to teach parents the skills to communicate with and soothe tantrum-prone children.