Why Contemporary Children and Adults Like Fairytales

Why do adults sexually abuse children?

domestication and foreignization in children literature translation

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Why Children Make “Better” Estimates of Fractional Magnitude than Adults

Development of estimation has been ascribed to two sources: (1) a change from logarithmic to linear representations of number and (2) development of general estimation skills. To test the representational change hypothesis, we gave children and adults an estimation task in which an automatic, linear representation is less adaptive than the logarithmic representation: estimating the value of sal...

When, why, and how does like like like?

In the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) framework of the past 60 years, colloidal interaction between similarly charged particles has been claimed to be simply repulsive, and an attraction such as the van der Waals interaction is attached to the Coulombic repulsion. Statistical-thermodynamic considerations show that the electrostatic Helmholtz free energy ΔF(el) is generally not equal to...

Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary Life

Arguing that men and women are different is risky business as the social demand to eliminate the gender binary increases. However, in her latest book Evolution and Gender: Why It Matters for Contemporary Life, Dr. Rosemary L. Hopcroft, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, not only delves into the question of how men and women are different, but also explore...