When Shiri Melumad was working on her doctorate in 2012, she found herself reaching for her smartphone during moments of stress, before a tough exam, for example. She didn't always use it, she ...

Baby pacifiers may get in the way of parents communicating with their infants, according to a study in the current issue of Basic and Applied Social Psychology. Parents may misread emotional ...

This paper builds on a 2012 study by the same team, which found a correlation between longer pacifier use as infants and signs of reduced emotional engagement in boys at different stages: At six ...

B O S T O N, Sept. 5 -- Helping your kid kick the pacifier habit may prevent painful ear infections, one of the most common childhood ailments, a new study says. Finnish researchers are unsure why ...

At an 18-month check-up, the researchers found that the babies whose parents sucked their pacifiers to clean them were 63% less likely to have eczema and 88% less likely to have asthma compared to ...

There might be a time and a place for binky use. Skip to Article. Set weather. ... 5 rules of thumb for pacifier use from The Grandmothers. Updated: Jan. 27, 2011, 7:07 p.m.

Pacifying gestures have long been associated with feelings of security and relaxation. Pacifying gestures may also serve as an indicator of deception in adults. This unexpected connection stems ...

If you brought home a new baby at least 15 years ago, some of the things you did turned out to be inadvisable, if not completely wrong. You made sure the baby slept on her stomach because your doct… ...