Month: September 2019

Bad to the bone or just bad behavior?

A new study suggests that the way we perceive others’ bad behavior — as either biological and innate or potentially changeable — impacts our willingness to cut them some slack. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where […]

Published on September 6, 2019

Having an elder brother is associated with slower language development

Several studies had already demonstrated that children who have an elder sibling have poorer linguistic performance than those who have none. Now a research team reported a more specific result: this only concerns children who have an elder brother. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of […]

Published on September 5, 2019

Similar information rates across languages, despite divergent speech rates

Spanish may seem to be spoken at a higher speed than Vietnamese, but that doesn’t make it any more ‘efficient’. Researchers have shown that human languages are equally effective at transmitting information, even if the speeds at which they are spoken differ. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is […]

Published on September 5, 2019