Poverty Impacts Sleep Quality in Early Life: Repercussions for Long-term Health Outcomes
It is well known that being raised in poverty poses barriers to healthy developmental outcomes. A recent publication from Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences describes how children living in poverty are more likely to have disrupted and …
Measurement in Behavioral Sciences: Moving Beyond the “Sum-and-Alpha” Approach
A recent article urging behavioral scientists to re-evaluate measurement standards suggests many studies may be drawing conclusions that are not supported by data. According to Dr. Daniel McNeish’s “Limitations of the Sum-and-Alpha Approach to Measurement in Behavioral Research” published in …
Boosting Baby’s Brain
Babies spend most of their time asleep, and the critical importance of sleep for their development has long been recognized. Much of the research on sleep’s impact on cognitive development …
Addressing Stigmatizing Environments to Reduce Sexual Minorities’ Health Disparities
In the last two decades, the United States has been a stage for significant increase in equality for the LGBTQ community as seen by the legalization of same-sex marriage, progress in HIV …
Bridging the Socio-Economic Divide in the Era of Covid
We’ve been told for eons that to get ahead you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
Not really, according to new research in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Data show, and 83 percent of Americans …
