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Forget the Cinderella effect: stepparents are just as likely to kill their biological children as their stepchildren

By Tim O’Mahony Operations Manager at Kexue Communications, [http://www.kexuecommunications.com](http://www.kexuecommunications.com) Researchers have known since the early 1970s that children in stepfamilies are at greater risk of child abuse and murder (Fergusson, Fleming & O’Neill, 1972). A team of Swedish researchers has found that parents in stepfamilies are equally likely to kill their biological children as they […]

Questions about “The Self”

In recent times there has been a lot of discussion with regard to social psychology constructs such as self-esteem, self-determination and self-affirmation. Due to rapidly changing societies and new insights into cognitive processes of memory formation some old theories of self-psychology have recently been challenged. For example Heine, Lehman, Markus and Kitayama (1999) postulated that […]