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Colleges, high schools and even elementary schools are unlikely to mandate introductory courses in critical thinking on their ow...

Humans are not born as blank slates for nature to write on. Neither are they behaving on genes alone.

Research by Lee A. Thomp...

I will be discussing the facts, statistics, and misunderstandings regarding ADHD in the U.S., and how music can play a role in l...

Researchers have found evidence that the placenta plays an important role in fetal brain development during the early stages of...

Babies who persistently cry are more likely to become problem children with behavioural disorders, researchers say.

According...

To the debate over nature vs. nurture (or, as it has shaken out recently, Amy Chua vs. Bryan Caplan), my colleague Motoko Rich r...