Genetics affects A-level choice and achievement
[3:35] The choice of whether to pursue A-level qualifications after compulsory education is substantially influenc…
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Are We Hard-Wired for Greed or Empathy?
[2:10] So much of the action in psychology has been a running debate over which view is right. [Source: Floating Univers…
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Child prodigy playing classical piano music
[2:46] Always wonderful to watch ultra talented children share their magic! [Video source: melomanyacs YouTube li…
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How Environmental Contaminants Can Affect Children’s Brains
[6:05] Professor Susan Schantz and her colleagues at Illinois are studying infants and their mothers to determine whe…
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The Baby Box
[13:29] Hundreds of babies are abandoned each year in South Korea, prompting a pastor to build a special baby box for the…
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Susan Polgar: “My Brilliant Brain”
[47:07] Laslo Polgar an educational psychologist, set out on a mission to create a genius. His first experiment, with d…
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Good and Bad Childhoods
[3:08] The quality of one’s childhood has an overwhelming effect on the course of adult life. It’s good to be fully a…
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Alison Gopnik: Teach Your Children Not to Fear the Possibility of Failure
[6:08] Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has done more than just ‘think of the children’, she wr…
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Rebecca Saxe: Baby Brains – Unlocking Our Humanity
[12:38] At MIT, Rebecca Saxe studies human brain development, in order to understand how the human mind is built. The ch…
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