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Science journalist Melissa Hogenboom asks if there are benefits of speaking more than one language to a child. Read the article on BOLD.

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Researchers Alex Lloyd and Manveer Sadhra argue that young people should have a say in the development of interventions they receive. Read the article on BOLD.

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Ross Hall explores the potential for increasing wellbeing by transforming traditional education systems. Read the article on BOLD.

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Science journalist Melissa Hogenboom discusses highly sensitive people and how children with this trait may need extra support. Read the article on BOLD. 

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Why is creativity important for learning? How can teachers deliver corrective feedback that motivates students to learn more? What contexts encourage students to actively seek constructive criticism?

Sean Sanders  finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Daniel L. Schwartz.

Daniel L. Schwartz is the I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology at Stanford University. Daniel Schwartz uses creative designs and experiments for his research into the mechanics of human learning and problem-solving, and their application.

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What are the benefits of being raised in high quality foster care as an alternative to institutional care? Why do some children appear to cope with adversity better than others? How might caregivers build resilience in children?

Listen in as Sean Sanders finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Charles A. Nelson.

Charles A. Nelson is Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His work is primarily in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience and includes research into the development of social perception, the developmental trajectories to autism, and the effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development.

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What happens in our brains when we play video games? Does playing action video games influence social skills and emotional intelligence? What is the relationship between play behaviour and learning?

Listen in as Sean Sanders finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Daphne Bavelier.

Daphne Bavelier is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She studies how the brain adapts to new and different experiences, particularly the effect of playing video games, and how this can be leveraged to improve learning and brain plasticity.

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How does our morality change as we mature from babies into toddlers, and then into teenagers and young adults? Does social media play a role in moral development? Where do children learn about morality and why is this so important?

Listen in as Sean Sanders finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Paul Bloom.

Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where his research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with a special focus on morality, religion, fiction, and art.

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How has the study of early interventions led to an increased understanding of the importance of parental investment in child development? Can early childhood interventions have long-lasting effects on the lives of children? Could more reliable and comparable measures of child development improve interventions?

Listen in as Sean finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Orazio Attanasio.

Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research interests include early years interventions, as well as household consumption, saving, and labour supply behaviour, risk sharing, and human capital accumulation in developing countries. He has carried out evaluations of education financing and access programmes, including large conditional cash transfers programmes, the impact of scholarships on school enrolment, and the effect of subjective expectations on the returns to education.

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How does the brain change during adolescence? What influence do external factors, such as stress, have on the development of the brain during this critical period? What do we know about the effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health?

Listen in as Sean finds out the answers to these questions and more with today’s guest, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, as well as adolescent mental health.

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