By David Reiss, Jody M. Ganiban, Leslie D. Leve, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Daniel S. Shaw, and Misaki N. Natsuaki.
Confounding, Causal Inference, and the Nature of Parent Effects: The Utility of the Adoption Study Design | Commentary
Commentary by Matt McGue, Robert F. Krueger, and Glenn I. Roisman. Parents have long been seen as playing a fundamental and implicitly causal role in shaping the children they rear. A focus on parenting is evident in the premier journals in developmental science…
Parenting and Child Outcomes in the Context of Genetics and the Environment | Commentary
Commentary by Stephen Petrill. Over the past decade the “Big Science” trend has led to ever larger datasets, massive teams of researchers, data harmonization, and an increasing number of meta-analyses and data consortia.
The Value of Genetically-Sensitive Research in Understanding Links between Parenting and Child Development | Commentary
Commentary by Jasmine Wertz. At the 2023 Academy Awards show, a theme running through many of the speeches were awardee’s references to their parents. From actress Michelle Yeoh dedicating her award to her mother…
Author Interviews | Monographs 87.1-3 | Video
The following clips were taken from an interview between Lauren Myers and Cecelia Liu, Associate Editors of Monograph Matters, and each of the authors of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development issue, “Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes.”
How Different Family Constellations Can Inform Science | PowerPoint
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Three Perspectives on PAR: The Data, the Self, and the Uncle in the Bear Costume
Author’s response to commentaries on Perceptual Access Reasoning (PAR) in Developing a Representational Theory of Mind.
Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-Ecological Contexts
By Kim A. Bard, Heidi Keller, Kirsty M. Ross, Barry Hewlett, Lauren Butler, Sarah T. Boysen, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Joint Engagement as a Triadic State and Joint Attention as an Infant Skill Shared by Humans and Chimpanzees | Commentary
Commentary by Roger Bakeman and Katharine Suma. The study reported in the monograph by Kim Bard and colleagues (2021) is observational in both senses of the term…
Joint Attention in Children and Chimps: Questions of Uniqueness, Universality, Plasticity, and the Evolution of Human Sociality | Commentary
Commentary by David F. Bjorklund. Some years ago, I had the good fortune to work with a small group of juvenile, enculturated chimpanzees and orangutans…