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...were up to three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming new relationships, whether the absences were permanent or shorter term. When children reach school age, Australian psychologist Paul Amato found, fathers are even more important to self-esteem than mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dads' Dilemma | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...women who let their tresses go gray "silver foxes." Even if Dove's new products fail in the marketplace, the company's Pro Age campaign sends women a powerful message. "We're seeing a real shift in how people are approaching beauty," says Nancy Etcoff, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty and one of the researchers in Dove's study. "Up to now, it's been about fighting aging with everything you have. Now you have a choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrinkles in Living Color | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...difference between you and me," a visiting Chinese student told University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett not long ago, "is that I think the world is a circle, and you think it's a line." The remark caught the professor off guard with its size. It prompted him to write a book, The Geography of Thought, about the differences--culturally encoded over a few hundred generations--between the Western and the Asian mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of U-Turns | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...this good news about teens raises an old question: Should we now be prepared to reward them with more rights? A new book by a prominent psychologist says we should. In fact, Robert Epstein, Harvard Ph.D., former editor in chief of Psychology Today and host of Sirius' Psyched! program, argues that we should abolish the very concept of adolescence. He's not alone: in 2004, Oxford University Press published The End of Adolescence, by psychiatrist Philip Graham, who argued that British teens deserved more respect and less condescension from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents: Relax | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

Robert Sutton, an organizational psychologist who teaches at Stanford, introduced the rule in 2005 in the Harvard Business Review. He's hardly the first to reveal the disruptive damage wrought by workplace bullies, as shown by the depth of scholarly literature he cites. But something about Sutton's message hits a nerve. Maybe it's the epithet, which he defines helpfully as someone who persistently belittles and abuses those of inferior power or status. (As if we needed it spelled out.) Or maybe it's his argument that jerks exact a cost to the bottom line as they single-handedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending Jerks at Work | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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