Vladimir Sloutsky on BBC: Mental health support in the community; Awareness in children; Insiders' Guide

February 18, 2019

Vladimir Sloutsky on BBC: Mental health support in the community; Awareness in children; Insiders' Guide

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As we grow up we get better at tasks involving thinking. But there is something at which 5 year olds excel and that adults are really not very good at - and that is noticing things. New research by Vladimir Sloutsky, a psychologist at Ohio State University, shows that small children pay more attention to what's going on around them than adults do. It's a skill he thinks we've been underestimating and a finding that holds lessons for the appearances of our primary schools.

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