In January 1839, in a small workshop in Woburn, Massachusetts, Charles Goodyear dropped a lump…
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In a 2006 study, 18-month-old toddlers helped a stranger who needed assistance across most of ten tasks without being asked or rewarded, but a 2008 follow-up found material rewards for helping later reduced how often toddlers helped
People are often described as deeply selfish as if it were a fixed trait, something…
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Two very different bodies of research on trusting your gut arrived at a similar conclusion: physical, pre-conscious signals can guide people toward better choices before they can explain why, but only in stable, familiar situations, not in unpredictable ones where confident intuition is often just wrong
“Go with your gut” is advice that can mean two very different things depending on…
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The grandparents children remember most warmly often weren’t the ones with the most to give, they were the ones who never seemed to be somewhere else while they were with you
Try this. Close your eyes and picture the grandparent you loved most, if you had…
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Research suggests parental expectations begin shaping children’s self-concept by age 4 — before most people are old enough to have chosen it themselves
A body of research in developmental psychology has built up gradually around an uncomfortable observation:…
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People who become harder to please in their seventies often aren’t getting more difficult, they’re tired of pretending that the small thoughtless things didn’t bother them when they were thirty, and the tiredness is, in most cases, what the family is reading as crankiness
There is a particular cultural script for how people change in their seventies. The script…
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I’m 38 and I have started to dread the question ‘how are you’ — not because I am doing badly, but because the honest answer would take longer than anyone in my life has time for, and the short answer has started to feel like a small lie I tell several times a day to people who would be horrified if I told them the truth
I’ve developed a quiet dread of three of the most harmless words in the language.…
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The child who never caused problems didn’t have fewer needs — they learned that having needs was the surest way to become inconvenient
There’s usually one in every family. The quiet one. The one who never asked for…
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Boomers who have a hard time letting their adult children make mistakes aren’t always controlling — sometimes the instinct is older than that, rooted in a time when a single wrong turn really did close a lot of doors
There is a particular kind of warning that traveled through mid-twentieth century American households as…
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Your parenting style may be the reason your child apologizes before they speak — and developmental research on authoritative parenting explains exactly where they learned it
I used to start sentences with sorry. Not after mistakes. Before them. Before anything, really.…
