We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to ...

Research consistently shows that many students become disengaged in their schoolwork as they move further into the middle years of high school. As students become disengaged, they participate in class less often, enjoy school less, become less interested in schoolwork, ...

Adolescents who drink regularly are twice as likely to binge drink as adults, a new study has revealed. The UNSW researchers behind the study said it provides the most robust evidence to date that patterns of drinking in adolescence persist into adulthood. Published ...

American developmental psychologist Emmy Werner was one of the first people to ever use the term 'resilience'.  It came out of her landmark study of children from Kauai, Hawaii, from their birth in 1955 to their late teens, in the 1970s. At the ...

After a successful campaign to scrap the compulsory rollout of NAPLAN online testing in Queensland, experts are asking the inevitable question: is NAPLAN testing still worthwhile? University of the Sunshine Coast's associate Professor Michael Nagel specialises in research on childhood ...