As technology continues to shape nearly every industry, the need for tech literacy is growing. With this in mind, professionals across specialties may be seeking to boost their career prospects by ...

Mr. Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of “Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy.” Picture your preschooler’s ...

In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to perform worse in tests of cognitive abilities such as processing speed, the rate at which ...

Generative AI is transforming workplaces. Harvard research highlights seven key human skills that will keep workers valuable.

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game ...

A recent study suggests that teaching children to understand other people's perspectives could make it easier for them to learn how to forgive other people. The study also found that teaching children ...

If you’ve found yourself feeling like you don’t understand your kids more and more recently, you’re not alone. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 79% of Americans see major differences ...

Researchers studied octopuses in the wild to learn whether they favor one of their eight arms over the others for certain jobs, but found the creatures give new meaning to ambidextrous.