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Several anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias, share a common underlying trait: increased sensitivity to...

Community characteristics play an important role in perpetuating teen suicide clusters and thwarting prevention efforts, according to a new study...

Experience in trading changes how the human brain evaluates the sale of goods, muting a well-established economic bias known as...

In the campy 1966 science fiction movie "Fantastic Voyage," scientists miniaturize a submarine with themselves inside and travel through the...

An innovative collaboration between neuroscientists and developmental psychologists that investigated how infants' brains process other people's action provides the first...

Wisdom is often linked with age, but not all elders are wise. So, what makes a person wise? A new...

Many families believe religion plays an essential role in childhood moral development. But children of religious parents may not be...

Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children's math achievement, according to new research...

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Babies' neural responses to morally charged scenarios are influenced by their parents' attitudes toward justice, new research from the University...

If you're a musician, this sounds too good to be true: University of Chicago psychologists have been able to train...

Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study from University of...

University of Chicago developmental neuroscientists have found specific brain markers that predict generosity in children. Those neural markers appear to...