A developmental psychologist explains how a period of life that’s often hectic and stressful can also end up being quite rewarding.
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Parents can take a page from psychological research on trauma and recovery to help kids struggling with pandemic life.
Together the social and emotional ‘jobs’ of adolescence – developing intimate friendships and achieving autonomy – make teens uniquely resistant to calls for social distancing.
A study found the emotional dynamic between young heterosexual partners can have a measurable physiological effect on men, but not on women.
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that underpins the inquiry-based method of teaching, where the teacher facilitates a learning environment in which students discover answers for themselves.
Do children understand the lesson that if you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours? Developmental psychologists suggest they’re more likely to punish bad behavior than they are to reward good deeds.
Developmental psychology has uncovered some lesser-known, yet important ways that fathers improve their children’s lives.
Teens get a bad rap as selfish, dangerous risk-takers. But neuroscience and psychology research is revising that image: Adolescents are primed to help those around them, with positive benefits for all.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
Teens’ brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
Adolescents have important developmental work to do. Despite what worried grownups think, taking needless risks isn’t the goal for teens. Being risky is part of exploring and learning about the world.
At the ages of 6-7, when children are transitioning to starting school, 14% have high levels of emotional problems, including depression and anxiety. This percentage is higher in the later years.
There’s no need for parents to bust the Santa myth. Children figure out the truth themselves, at a developmentally appropriate time. In the process, they build their reasoning skills.
Psychology researchers bring infants into the lab to learn more about how shared book reading influences brain and behavioral development.
Racial bias is associated with dehumanizing social groups different from your own. Psychologists trained kids to differentiate individuals of another race – with lasting effects on their biases.
Persistence and self-control are valuable traits that can help kids succeed in school and beyond. A new study suggests infants can learn stick-to-itiveness by watching adults persist in a difficult task.
Psychologists observed young children in real time figuring out how not to tell the truth.
Most psychology research that forms the basis of parenting advice might not apply to you. So, how do you know whether to trust it?
A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids’ knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.
Recent research raised concerns about girls’ stereotypes on their gender’s lack of ‘brilliance.’ But an overlooked finding suggests boys also hold hindering stereotypes about themselves in school.
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Professor of Psychology, University of California San Diego
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Formerly a lecturer in genetics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Clinician, Australian Catholic University
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F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa
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Graduate Student, University of Iowa
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Medical & Science Writer, University of Iowa
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Assistant Research Professor, University of St Andrews
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Researcher, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Human Sciences and Psychology; Faculty Associate of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, The Ohio State University
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Senior Analyst, Strategic Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University
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Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
