The key to boosting a child's cognitive and emotional development lies in promoting an active interest in topics or activities, Griffith University researchers have found. The study, published in ...

Social capital development has been extensively studied on relationship-based networks (i.e., Facebook, WeChat), whereas scant attention has been devoted to another critical category: interest-based ...

College students are often urged to "find" their passion, but such advice could discourage them from exploring other disciplines or developing new skills if they feel their passion or interests have ...

Vocational interests refer to enduring patterns of preferences for particular work activities and environments. The theory of person-environment fit proposes that when an individual’s interests, ...