News tagged with social skill
People with higher IQs make wiser economic choices, study finds
People with higher measures of cognitive ability are more likely to make good choices in several different types of economic decisions, according to a new study with researchers from the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Large study shows females are equal to males in math skills
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Studies touting China's treatments for Internet overuse may lack validity
(Phys.org) -- Excessive Internet usage has been linked to an array of problems, from structural changes in the brain to depression, poor social skills, violent outbursts and sexual promiscuity. In China, concerns ...
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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My fair physicist? Feminine math, science role models do not motivate girls
(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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Babies' brains tuned to sharing attention with others
Children as young as five months old will follow the gaze of an adult towards an object and engage in joint attention, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. The findings, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Bad jobs: Why they make some women bad moms
(PhysOrg.com) -- The kind of job a woman has may be just as important as whether she works or not when it comes to the well-being of her child.
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May 01, 2009 |
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Teaching autistic teens to make friends
During the first week of class, the teens' eyes were downcast, their responses were mumbled and eye contact was almost nonexistent. By Week 12, though, these same kids were talkative, responsive and engaged.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Study: Children of divorce lag behind peers in math and social skills
Children whose parents get divorced generally don't experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period, but often fall behind their peers—and don't catch up—when it comes to math and interpersonal social ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Older is not always wiser when it comes to social gaffes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Older people have more difficulty detecting the social gaffes of others and this is due to an age-related decline in their emotion perception skills, new University of Otago research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Activision bets on online play for 'Call of Duty'
(AP) -- Activision knows it's more fun to blast on-screen enemies into oblivion with friends, so this fall it's launching an online service for its "Call of Duty" games that's part Facebook, part player matchmaker ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Providing Access to the Web is Not Enough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even among college freshmen and digital natives -- those young adults who grew up with the Internet -- higher-level Internet skills and more sophisticated Internet usage still strongly correspond to socioeconomic ...
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Mar 30, 2010 |
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Do children need both a mother and a father?
The presumption that children need both a mother and a father is widespread. It has been used by proponents of Proposition 8 to argue against same-sex marriage and to uphold a ban on same-sex adoption.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 21, 2010 |
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UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Growing up without sibs doesn't hurt social skills
Growing up without siblings doesn't seem to be a disadvantage for teenagers when it comes to social skills, new research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2010 |
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