Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children

01/09/2022 17 min Episodio 73
Love Lets Us Learn: Psychological Science Makes the Case for Policies That Help Children

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Adverse early experiences, quite literally, can kill. In her latest presidential column for the APS Observer, APS President Alison Gopnik, who studies learning and development at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the growing moral and scientific case for early childhood policies that can mitigate or prevent the effects of experiences such as poverty, physical or emotional neglect and abuse, and mental illness, addiction, and violence in the home. She reads her column in this episode. 

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