Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategi
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Table of contents :
Content: The inverse power of praise --
The lost hour --
Why white parents don't talk about race --
Why kids lie --
The search for intelligent life in kindergarten --
The sibling effect --
The science of teen rebellion --
Can self-control be taught? --
Plays well with others --
Why Hannah talks and Alyssa doesn't --
The myth of the supertrait.