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Children Walking on Trail

Sibling rivalry and brotherly love

08 Apr 2011

Siblings, and even sibling rivalry, can have a positive effect on children’s early development and their ability to form social relationships later...

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MRI brain scan highlights the insula, one of the areas of the brain that is reduced in volume in subjects with Conduct Disorder.

Scans reveal differences in brain structure of antisocial teens

01 Apr 2011

Brain scans of teenage boys with severe antisocial behaviour have revealed differences in the structure of the developing brain.

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Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango

11 Nov 2010

Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds! //-->

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water

Cambridge Ideas - The Perfect Crew?

11 Nov 2010

Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative...

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Antidepressants

Antidepressants can alter peoples’ moral judgement

28 Sep 2010

The most common type of antidepressants, serotonin enhancers, alters peoples moral judgement and leads to a reduction in aggressive behaviour, a...

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World Health Assembly - Panel on H1N1

New kids on the block

08 Jul 2010

The negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they...

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Meerkat

Tradition explains why some meerkats are late risers

07 Jul 2010

Just as afternoon tea is traditional in England but not in France, different groups of meerkats have different ways of doing things, Cambridge...

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cleaner fish

Cleaner fish respond to the shadow of the future

03 Jun 2010

Tropical fish alter their behaviour with an eye to the future, researchers at Cambridge have found. This is the first time such behaviour has been...

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Free TV Texture

Watching religiously

20 May 2010

A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield...

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time has come

Violent teen girls miss anger or disgust in others’ faces

05 May 2010

Girls appear to be "protected" from showing antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, new research from the University of Cambridge has found...

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The Cowbird's Nest

Bird’s eye view of how cuckoos fool their hosts

23 Apr 2010

Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird's eye view of the world, Cambridge scientists have discovered how a...

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Mental Illness

Jumping to delusions: shortcuts in the brain

24 Mar 2010

Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?

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