Curiosity Daily Podcast: This Dino Was Fossilized Incubating Its Eggs
Learn about how kids as young as 8 show a gender gap when it comes to negotiating; how speaking another language can change your personality; and what paleontologists can learn from a momentous new discovery of fossilized dinosaur embryos.
May 05, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
Kids as young as 8 show a gender gap when it comes to negotiating by Kelsey Donk
- Children As Young As Eight Show A Gender Gap In Negotiation. (2021, March 11). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/03/11/children-as-young-as-8-show-a-gender-gap-in-negotiation/
- Arnold, S. H., & McAuliffe, K. (2021). Children Show a Gender Gap in Negotiation. Psychological Science, 32(2), 153–158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620965544
How Speaking Another Language Can Change Your Personality by Ashley Hamer
- Prentis, N. (2017, March 8). Speaking a foreign language can change your personality. Quartz; Quartz. https://qz.com/925630/feel-more-fun-in-french-your-personality-can-change-depending-on-the-language-you-speak/
- Ramírez-Esparza, Nairán, and Adrián García-Sierra. "The bilingual brain: language, culture and identity." The Oxford handbook of multicultural identity (2014): 35-56. https://labclab.psychology.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1167/2015/04/Language3.pdf
- Ramírez-Esparza, N., Gosling, S. D., Benet-Martínez, V., Potter, J. P., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2006). Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(2), 99–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2004.09.001
- Multilinguals Have Multiple Personalities. (2014, April 23). The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/117485/multilinguals-have-multiple-personalities
Scientists just found a fossilized dino incubating its eggs by Grant Currin
- Cassella, C. (2021). Jaw-Dropping Fossil Find Contains a Dinosaur Sitting on an Entire Clutch of Eggs. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/fossilized-dinosaur-found-brooding-on-a-nest-of-preserved-eggs-with-actual-embryos-inside
- Bi, S., Amiot, R., Peyre de Fabrègues, C., Pittman, M., Lamanna, M. C., Yu, Y., Yu, C., Yang, T., Zhang, S., Zhao, Q., & Xu, X. (2020). An oviraptorid preserved atop an embryo-bearing egg clutch sheds light on the reproductive biology of non-avialan theropod dinosaurs. Science Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.12.018
- Gamillo, E. (2021, March 18). For the First Time, Paleontologists Unearth Fossil of Non-Avian Dinosaur Incubating a Nest of Eggs. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-science/unearthed-dinosaur-fossil-found-incubating-nest-eggs-180977264/
- Geggel, L. (2021, March 16). “Rarest of the rare” dinosaur fossil found brooding on its eggs. Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-sitting-on-eggs-with-embryos.html
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