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Children whose parents encourage them to use gestures acquire smaller vocabularies than babies who are not encouraged to use gestures.

When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq, claiming that the country had weapons of mass destruction and was allied with Al-Qaeda, he and his team ignored evidence from intelligence agencies that neither claim was true. Some in the intelligence agencies attributed this error to a process called

Cultures and religions differ in their schemas for the roles of women and men.

Weakness and frailty in the elderly are an inevitable part of old age.

The set-point theory has difficulty explaining

Which hormone/neurotransmitter has been shown in some studies to increase trust?

Children begin to name objects at about

Emotion-focused coping strategies concentrate on the emotions that a problem has caused.

After years of extensive research, it has been determined that fathers have very little influence on prenatal development.

When social support comes from a friend or close family member, its benefits on the immune system are especially powerful.