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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
- Jul 14, 2026 Psychologists who identified a third dimension of a good life, separate from simple happiness or a sense of meaning… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A landmark study of 51 work teams found that team leaders who actively coach their people, rather than simply directing… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Researchers who tracked how single adults text potential dates found emoji use helps build attraction only up to a… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Research on workplace generosity found that self-sacrificing, boundary-free givers consistently rank among the lowest… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A study on trait self-control found that people who seem naturally calm under pressure are not actually resisting… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Psychologists studying how people get others to comply with requests have found that small, unsolicited acts of… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A 2024 study following workers who experienced day-to-day incivility found that neither confronting the person… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Two separate bodies of psychological research, one on wisdom and one on mental health treatment, have independently… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Linguists studying Southern speech have identified several genuinely distinct meanings behind the single phrase "bless… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Researchers studying how people judge each other through text messages have found that small, easy-to-miss habits, an… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A Pew Research Center survey of nearly 12,000 Americans found no real consensus on one of the most basic modern… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 13, 2026 A Swedish study that followed nearly 800 older adults through the retirement transition found that becoming less… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 13, 2026 Retirement researchers have found that once retirees have enough income to feel financially secure, differences in… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 13, 2026 A brain-imaging study found that simply putting a strong emotion into words, saying "I'm angry" rather than staying… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 13, 2026 A national survey found the share of American men who say they have no close friends at all rose from 3 percent in 1990… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 13, 2026 We tend to imagine sharp people have some intuitive read on others, but a recent study found their advantage in judging… By The Artful Age Editorial Team