Brushes with death can have lasting effects, but very few studies bother to ask children about them.

James Coulter Imagine two girls playing with dolls. One girl is named Sally; the other, Anne. Sally puts her doll in a toy chest before leaving the room. Anne removes the doll from the chest and hides ...

For many children, books weren’t an escape from real life so much as the first place their inner world felt vivid, valid, and worth paying attention to.What stayed with them wasn’t just a love of ...

A set of children’s building blocks (Anker-Steinbaukasten) that belonged to Albert Einstein Christie's Albert Einstein spent his life trying to understand how the universe was built—its hidden order, ...

Background Preschool represents the budding and initial stage of bullying behavior, where perpetration of physical bullying predominates as the primary form of bullying. An in-depth understanding of ...

For four decades, a controversial idea has shaped how autism is understood by researchers, healthcare professionals and the public: the claim that autistic people are “mind blind”. The phrase suggests ...

Below, Tom Griffiths shares five key insights from his new book, The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind. Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

In early February 2026, social media users claimed an emailed Wayfair receipt in sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case files confirmed the online retailer participated in child sex trafficking. The ...

Children’s decision-making is a socio-cognitive skill embedded within a broader system that promotes understanding of others and effective management of interpersonal contexts, making it closely ...

A new documentary is looking to peel back the curtain on the case of a Texas mother who was convicted of killing her five children, with rumors circulating decades later that she may have carried out ...