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There are two sides to every coin. Praising your kids is no exception. On one hand, there’s a body of evidence that supports the theory that praising your children is good. Studies have found that it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A few weeks back, Sabine Hossenfelder published a piece with the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and all four subcommittee chairmen today applauded House passage of the two appropriations bills that fund many of the ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

Researchers have discovered that people tend to give more praise to someone for their good deeds as an adult after discovering that person has also had to overcome adversity or suffering earlier in ...

The unexpected renaissance of the hard science-fiction movie is one of several trends from the decade that surprise us, even though we should have seen it coming. In the 2010s, multiplex attendees ...

One surprising discovery I made when I was doing the research for my book The Confident Child, was that children often respond negatively to praise. A 5-year-old burst into tears when her grandmother ...

Most parents figure out pretty quickly how to discipline a child whether it's a timeout or a good talking to, knowing what to do when children do something wrong is pretty basic. But what about when ...