Science news articles about 'playmates'

The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor a child's ...

... the title, but what is a boy to do when confronted with Katharine Gammon's "Infoporn: Today's Playmates Are More Like Anime Figures Than Real Humans" in Wired Magazine: Oh, Playboy, why do you want ...

... the attractiveness of their peers who wear glasses when asked about their appearance, potential as a playmate or likely athletic abilities. The findings might give children some comfort when they ...

Preschoolers who are aggressive, angry, and inattentive tend to have fewer playmates than their non-aggressive classmates, whether they are boys or girls. In comparison, non-aggressive children do ...

Papers delivered at three conferences in the US and Europe this summer report on new research at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering studying interactions of children ...

... Barbie, and Wired Magazine. Give up? Wired featured a charticle in the February issue on the BMI of Playmates, starting back in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe to the recent January 2009 cover girl, versus ...

Due to the use of her celebrity status to promote potentially dangerous chelation therapy as a "cure" for autism, we eventually had to knock her off the FOI To Do List. On Monday, we rucked over a ...

Researchers have found that sedentary children take far longer to 'nod off' at night than their more active playmates.

... their own bodies. During the study, each of the 121 girls was taken into a room with a "playmate" -- a trained research associate in her 20s who had experience working with children. After chatting ...