Fesearch has shown that adults instinctively think of men when asked to think of a person—they describe the most “typical” person they can imagine as male and assume storybook characters without a specified gender are men. A new study by psychology researchers shows that the way parents talk to their children may contribute to these perceptions. Their findings show that parents across the US are more likely to use gender-neutral labels—for instance, “kid”—more often for boys than for girls and to use gender-specific labels, such as “girl,” more often for girls than for boys. 

Perinatal interventions guided by reproductive justice principles can have positive effects on the perinatal mental health of Black birthing patients and, perhaps, the mental health development of their infants, states a systematic review published in a special issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry, part of the Lippincott portfolio from Wolters Kluwer.

A $100 million philanthropic commitment, the largest in Cornell Engineering’s history, from David A. Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, will significantly expand the college’s existing Duffield Hall, creating a new state-of-the-art home for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and critical new lab space for strategic research priorities.

psychology researchers at the University of Toronto are investigating how people-pleasing socialization influences how children solve problems. Their new study found that, on average, girls excel at replicating the teacher’s instructions in the classroom — even when those instructions are wrong — while boys tend to explore new solutions beyond what they’ve been taught.

Users of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok might think they’re simply interacting with friends, family and followers, and seeing ads as they go. But according to UBC Sauder research, they’re part of constant marketing experiments that are often impossible even for the companies behind them to fully comprehend.

Contextual social determinants of health (SDoH) – for example, rural residence and neighborhood economic factors – may affect access to community-based rehabilitation services for older adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI), suggests a study in the March/April issue of Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR). The official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America, JHTR is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.