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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 15, 2026 Two separate lines of psychological research on people who quietly carry a lot found the same pattern By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that had long-term couples try either a mundane task or a genuinely new, mildly thrilling one together, in the… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A foundational psychological theory of love identified three separate ingredients, intimacy, passion, and commitment… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A study of 168 dual-earner couples found that workaholism in one partner reliably predicted more conflict between work… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A now-classic study comparing how people feel about their past purchases found that money spent on experiences produced… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 The same large-scale international research that pinpointed a happiness low point around age 47 also found something… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A randomized trial of 126 smokers trying to quit found that treating a slip-up with self-compassion, rather than… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Researchers who videotaped strangers meeting for the first time found that people who scored high in trait curiosity… By The Artful Parent Editorial Team
- 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 Parent 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 Parent 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 Parent Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Research on workplace generosity found that self-sacrificing, boundary-free givers consistently rank among the lowest… By The Artful Parent 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 Parent 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 Parent 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 Parent 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 Parent Editorial Team