Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
- Bill Yates asks, Do Personalities Converge After Marriage? Or do similar people simply wind up marrying each other in the first place?
- "'Rectal stimulation', you say. Sounds all fun and games, but actually this study is an important one. It's looking at potentials traveling up from the rectum to the brain, and trying to detect them in both the spinal cord and the cortex." Let Scicurious take you on this journey.
- "A study out of the journal Sex Roles took a look at preschoolers' attitudes towards obesity by means of Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders." Yoni Freedhoff covers an interesting new paper at his blog Weighty Matters. Nonshocker! Preschool kids think thinner is better.
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Children who have the opportunity to attend full-day preschool programs, versus part-day programs, tend to score higher on school readiness measures such as language, math, socio-emotional development and physical health, according to a recent study.
Sometimes, while working on a story one comes across a data set that's so interesting it just has to be shared. Unfortunately, it can't quite be shoehorned into the tight narrative of the article. That's why God invented the sidebar.
Children are often thought to be imaginative and fanciful, not only in their perception of the world but also in the veridicality of their memories. It may therefore be surprising that a robust method for eliciting false memories in adults is actually ineffective in children.
There's been a ton of research on the impact of working memory: its importance in
Cool, maybe they'll find the long-sought after rectal-tectal connections...