Education

Encouraging children (aged 8-11) to gesture while problem solving or explaining ideas promoted more creative thinking.

Having many team members share leadership roles increases teamwork in university student workgroups. This also increases team members' enjoyment, focus, and engagement.

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

The ability to master a second language declines significantly in late adolescence and those who are exposed to their second language by the age of 12 are more likely to attain native proficiency.

Education

Piano lessons and reading lessons each improved the ability to recognize sounds and differentiate words in Chinese kindergarten students.

After visiting zoos and aquariums, people have a better understanding of biodiversity and knowledge of actions that they can take to protect it.

Compared to a neutral position, advocating for a controversial position made people see a scientist as more or less credible, depending on the issue. Advocating for a non-controversial position either made the scientist seem more credible than a neutral position or did not affect credibility.

PLOS ONE

Students who took notes by hand outperformed laptop note takers on understanding of concepts, possibly because laptops increased the tendency for students to record information word for word.

For partisan issues, education does not necessarily lead to increasing acceptance of evidence. In at least some cases, having more education leads to increased rejection of evidence in favour of political ideology.

Students eating school lunches in Boston public middle schools threw away over 40% of the food they were served, including 73% of their vegetables. If this is representative of the USA, $1.2 billion in school lunch food is wasted each year and students are consuming less than their recommended levels of nutrients.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Scientific articles about climate change were cited more frequently if they used a more narrative style.

PLOS ONE