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...most cases none of the above, says psychologist Marjorie Taylor of the University of Oregon, who with her colleague Stephanie Carlson at the University of Washington has conducted a study of kids and their fictional companions. Not only are such creations common--65% of children up to age 7 played with at least one imaginary friend at some point in their lives, according to a paper Taylor and Carlson published in Developmental Psychology late last year--but they may give children who dream them up a developmental advantage...
Children who play with imaginary companions may have an edge over their peers. They tend to have better verbal skills and are better at understanding other points of view, according to Taylor and Carlson. Earlier studies suggested that children with imaginary friends may have above-average IQs, be more creative and smile and laugh more on the playground than other kids. "Children with pretend friends are actually less shy and more sociable than children without them," says Taylor. "It's almost the opposite of what you might think...
...advised the jury that his client was retarded or that he had an IQ between 58 and 69 and had been beaten with whips, water hoses, extensions cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with a condescending quiver. And the riff on gang violence? It's fine to take on gangs, but I couldn...
Shoutfest Crossfire, conservative pundit TUCKER CARLSON left the network last week and is in negotiations with rival MSNBC. A CNN exec told reporters his decision to drop Crossfire was influenced in part by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who called Carlson and his liberal counterpart, Paul Begala, "partisan hacks" when he was on the show last fall. "It's a half-hour show at 4:30," says Carlson, who put in his resignation before Stewart's comments. "To say we're the problem with America is ludicrous." Yeah. It's prime time that's really doing...
...Everyone has their own standards," says Greg Carlson, an analyst at investment tracker Morningstar. "There's no clear line between what's socially responsible and what's not." That's how two respected socially responsible benchmarks--Calvert Social Index and Domini 400 Social Index--wind up holding different groups of companies. While Calvert doesn't hold McDonald's because it fails the index's labor-practices screen, Domini does. And though Domini rejects Pfizer partly on the basis of its environmental record and product-safety issues, Calvert includes the drug giant. "You have a lot of companies where reasonable people...