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• Understanding Risk Factors Involved in Initiation of Adolescent Alcohol Use

  26-06-2016 17:06
  Underage drinking is a major public health and social problem in the U.S. The ability to identify at-risk children before they initiate heavy alcohol use has immense clinical and public health implications. A new study has found that demographic factors, cognitive functioning, and brain features during the early-adolescence ages of 12 to 14 years can predict which youth eventually initiate alcohol use during later adolescence around the age of 18.
  
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• 'It's my turn!' Value of turn-taking not understood until the age of 5

  26-06-2016 09:00
  
  Children fail to understand the importance of turn-taking until the age of 5 years, say researchers, likely because it requires complex cognitive skills.
  
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• Oldest, youngest or middle child? How sibling birth order affects you

  26-06-2016 07:00
  
  Discover if there is any correlation between the birth order of you and your siblings and how sociable or neurotic you and they areHere’s the simplest personality test you’ll ever take. It consists of a single question: Of your siblings, are you the oldest child, second oldest, third oldest… or perhaps the youngest? Continue reading...
  
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• Do women stay cooler under stress than men?

  26-06-2016 07:00
  
  Men and women make very different decisions under pressure. But who loses their head?Mara Mather and researchers at the University of Southern California were curious to see if stress changes how people make decisions. They asked subjects to play a computer game: the goal was to make as much money as they could by inflating virtual balloons. As the animated balloon got bigger, you won more money. You could cash out at any time. If a balloon exploded, if you went one pump too far, then you receiv
  
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