This study probes in some detail the sentiment that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: “The bad taste of medicines: overview of basic research on bitter taste,” Julie A. Mennella [pictured here], Alan C. Spector, Danielle R. Reed, and Susan E. Coldwell, Clinical therapeutics, vol. 35, no. 8 (2013): 1225-1246. The authors, […]
Tag: children
Research on kids’ indifference to, or fear of, Santa Claus
Professor John Trinkaus did several studies documenting the prevalence of indifference or fear among kids visiting Santa Claus in a shopping mall, we remind you. Professor Trinkaus was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in literature for for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about things that annoyed him (such as: What […]
Little Kids Don’t Sit Still For As Long as Adults Do, Generally
How long do little kids stand sitting still? This study is part of an ongoing effort to explore that question: “The Influence of Minimum Sitting Period of the ActivPAL™ on the Measurement of Breaks in Sitting in Young Children,” Zubaida Alghaeed, John J. Reilly [pictured here, in adulthood], Sebastien F.M. Chastin, Anne Martin, Gwyneth Davies, James […]
Effects of Passive Smoking on Snoring in Preschool Children
This new study is one of the few to try to make an attempt to assess the existence or nonexistence of effects of passive smoking on snoring in preschool children: “Effects of Passive Smoking on Snoring in Preschool Children,” Yin Zhu, Chun Ting Au, Ting Fan Leung, Yun Kwok Wing, Christopher Wai Kei Lam, Albert […]