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A mother with university education and a father with good social status favor the cognitive development of their children. Social stratification continues to create gaps in child development. What can we do? We know that social stratification conditions child development. The support of a stable financial environment, as expected, is …

Konrad Lorenz was, without a doubt, one of the most important scientists and researchers of the 20th century. He studied animal behavior like no other scientist. He is known as the “father of ethology”, which is precisely the discipline that studies animal behavior. His research greatly enriched what we knew …

Jerusalem Syndrome is a mental illness that affects tourists visiting Jerusalem and the people who live there. This disease is based on delusions and falls within psychosis. Usually, people who have this syndrome identify with certain biblical characters and start to imitate them. Some of the characters in the Bible …

Among most people’s desires and aspirations is to be loved and valued by someone else; but how is anyone going to love you if you are not able to love yourself? This topic is usually complex, firstly, because it is very extensive, and secondly, because it can get to be …

The art of becoming adults requires courage, commitment and responsibility to ourselves and others. Becoming a healthy adult is not an easy task, especially considering how the society in which we grew up is set up. On the other hand, depending on how we live our childhood and the bonds …

Cruelly murdered, Hypatia was a woman of reason, a teacher in places where women didn’t even enter, a revolutionary who believed, above all, in science… Hypatia of Alexandria was the first philosopher, mathematics, and physics of whose existence there are reliable proofs. She was born in Egypt in the late …

When we persuade someone, we are urging them to do, feel, or think something. But what happens over time? More likely, the effect of this persuasion will weaken and increase the likelihood that others will stop doing, feeling, or thinking what we wanted to induce. But this reduction in the …

It is difficult to put yourself in the shoes of those who suffered, directly or indirectly, the terrorist attack in Barcelona. But it is even more difficult to put yourself in the shoes of people who experience terrorism on a daily basis, because of the distance and because of how …

In psychometric terms, validity is a concept that has gone through a long evolutionary process. In the beginning, Muñiz (1996) adopted the validity with a specific position. In statistical terms, validity is defined as the proportion of the true variance that is relevant for the purposes of the test. With …

The connection between quantum physics and spirituality is evident to the Dalai Lama. According to him, all the atoms in our body include part of this ancient screen that formed the Universe in the past. We are stardust and we are biologically connected to any living being. We are beings …