BOLD insights

A researcher discusses how children's everyday experiences influence learning variability from an evolutionary and comparative psychology perspective.

This episode challenges negative stereotypes of adolescence and highlights the potential for positive development during the teenage years.

This episode discusses how teacher training programs can help educators navigate sensitive topics like race, climate change, and gender in the classroom.

This episode discusses the lack of evidence for many educational interventions and the challenges of producing rigorous research in education.

This episode explores how children's beliefs about hard work and natural talent, influenced by gender stereotypes, affect their motivation and persistence in math.

This episode discusses how reciprocal self-disclosure between parents and children can make children feel more loved, based on a study by Eddie Brummelman.

This episode examines the relationship between smartphone use and youth mental health, arguing against bans and for supportive adult guidance.

Cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman discusses his research on why children use loopholes, revealing the complex cognitive and social skills behind this behavior.

This episode explores the theory and evidence behind personalized learning, from Vygotsky's zone of proximal development to Bloom's tutoring research.

This episode explores how developmental coordination disorder affects children's learning and motor skills, and what teachers can do to support them.

BOLD insights' "How to help children cope with war trauma" by Amanda Ruggieri opens with Save the Children's estimate that 468 million children, more than one in six worldwide, live in active conflict zones.

BOLD insights host Sean Sanders interviews McGill professor Michael Meaney about how childhood caregiving and stress affect DNA regulation.

BOLD insights interviews Terry Moffitt and Afshalom Caspi about how childhood development, mental health, and biological aging connect across the life course.