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Parents often lie to their children in an effort to get them to behave.
A child is no more likely to display behavioural problems as a result of spending time in child care.
Listen again to this week's Radio Four ‘The Life Scientific’ and hear Chartered Psychologist and Honorary Fellow of the Society Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith discuss the pros and cons of young babies watching television.
Fussy babies are often kept busy with television, new findings have suggested.
Autistic children correctly diagnosed with the condition could lose symptoms of the disorder as they get older.
The joint conference of the British Psychological Society's Cognitive and Developmental Psychology Sections will take place in Reading. CogDev2013 will bring in many of the leaders in cognitive and developmental psychology from the UK and Eu
The friendships boys enjoy between the ages of nine and 13 could be strengthened through engaging in social networking, new findings have suggested.
Young children with enhanced language skills become better able to manage their frustration over the years ahead.
Postpartum women process stress differently from females who have not recently given birth.
Depression advances through the different developmental stages of a person's lifespan and one new study has succeeded in identifying how the condition changes as the sufferer ages.
You're a cheeky 10-month-old, an expert crawler able to move with impressive speed on your hands and knees. The world is your oyster, so why do you bother staggering to your feet to become a doddering, novice walker?
Teenagers are more likely to suffer from depression if they see their parents arguing often.
Happy adolescents are more likely to become rich in adult life than their less cheery peers, new research has suggested.
Few sounds can be as heart-warming as a chuckling toddler. Often they're laughing at a joke you or someone else has performed, but what about their own attempts at humour?
Children with mental health disorders may be more prone to bullying others, new research has suggested.
The many factors that influence the living habits of children between the ages of eight and 14 are to be explored in a new study.
A cute mistake that young children make is to think that they can hide themselves by covering or closing their eyes. Why do they make this error?
New research published in the Journal of Communication suggests that children may learn about gossiping and friend manipulation by watching television sh
"The statistics are clear," Nancy Gibbs wrote in a Time magazine article from 2006: "Kids who dine with the folks are healthier, happier and better students".
As the school year starts again many parents will be considering whether to drive their child to school or allow them to walk or cycle.
In this article, Chartered Psychologist Dr Ruth Lowry explains the benefits of walking or cycling to school.
Using text speak doesn’t necessarily mean that children have a bad grasp of grammar, new research has suggested.
Couples who are separated should place greater focus on their children rather than on their relationship, new research has shown.
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, will be awarded the Fondation Mattei Dogan Prize in Psychological Science this week.
A young person's cognitive development can be hampered through persistent poverty, a new study has shown.
Maybe you've tried giving them names. Or perhaps you've made noises of gastronomic delight. But still your young child refuses to eat their greens.
