Scientists at King's College London, the University of Manchester, and the University of Liverpool have found that an infant's preference for a person's face, rather than an object, is associated with lower levels of callous and unemotional...
One of the common myths about resilience is that some people are simply born with it, while the rest of us aren’t. “The first step is recognizing that resilience is a choice,” explains Kripalu faculty member Maria Sirois. She...
As she waited for her nursing shift to begin, Sharon Aikman scanned her local Indiana newspaper and felt a pang of sadness as she read the headline, "Three children abused by mother and boyfriend." When she read the name of the mother, Aikman's...
Science is changing the way we think about development policy and practice when it comes to young children, radically altering our definition of early childhood development and what we do to ensure that every child has the best start in life....
In 2011, the New York University psychologist Gabriele Oettingen published the results of an elegant study, conducted with her colleague Heather Kappes, in which participants were deprived of water. Some of these parched volunteers were then taken...
A good friend of mine, Al Crowell, calls me awhile back to tell me he has a brilliant idea about how to help people realize they shouldn’t be hitting kids. He tells me his granddaughter, Camila, has never been spanked. Her parents are...
Most Iowans didn’t learn about the Centers for Disease Control’s ACE Study until early 2011. But in the three years since then, the state has completed two ACE surveys, one of them published, with a third survey underway and a fourth...
Residents of major U.S. metropolitan areas who need a psychiatrist are often likely to come up empty-handed, regardless of ability to pay, new research suggests. Why? Wrong numbers, unreturned phone calls, and full practices, according to a...
Just a few months after Harvard University announced a new, tougher policy against campus sexual assault, a group of Harvard law professors is blasting the rules as unfair. Harvard announced its new policy this summer, after the school came...
The stories are shocking and heartbreaking, but they are often disjointed and hard to follow. In severe cases, the narratives are even more chaotic. This is reality for victims of workplace bullying and a major reason why they stay silent, said Stacy...
Young gay and bisexual males are less likely to engage in riskier sex if their families are supportive of the way they live, a small new study reveals. However, while the study found an association between family support and safer sex practices, such...
NCAR, the National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience, is a national movement to “ to preventing childhood trauma and creating a just, healthy, and resilient world .” Current broad strategic goals include creating a common language,...
Our mood can affect how we walk—slump-shouldered if we're sad, bouncing along if we're happy. Now researchers have shown it works the other way too—making people imitate a happy or sad way of walking actually affects their mood....
Smoking took an $18.1 billion toll in California – $487 for each resident – and was responsible for more than one in seven deaths in the state, more than from AIDS, influenza, diabetes or many other causes, according to the first...
Having had children – particularly early in life – and a dysfunctional romantic relationship are the two most frequently cited reasons when low-income mothers are asked about why they find themselves in poverty. So say American...