A Tale of Two Colonists
How two people react to a situation can bring about startling changes in their lives. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Abby Chandler considers British colonists in the 1700s.
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of California at Riverside's Mary Gauvain explores how exposure to cooking fire smoke in the developing world can impair cognitive development in children. Gauvain is a professor of psychology at UC-Riverside, where her research is focused on understanding how social and cultural processes contribute to children's acquisition, organization, and use of cognitive skills. Find out more about her here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.