Commentary by Dr. Christia Spears Brown. In the Monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang focus on how children conceptualize the complex feeling of respect, how this differs across childhood and adolescence, and…
The Developmental Roots of Respect and its Role in Development | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Jeremy I. M. Carpendale. Respect is an integral part of the social and emotional fabric of human interaction. In their monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang (2020) argue for the essential…
Children’s Developing Respect: Looking to Future Research | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Tracy L. Spinrad. In their Monograph, Malti, Peplak, and Zhang argue that although philosophers and psychologists have often thought about the concept of respect, researchers have seldom studied…
A Spotlight on Context in the Developmental Science of Civic Engagement | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Kristine J. Ajrouch. Attention to how youth living in high poverty neighborhoods become engaged in civic life is an important and timely issue. The monograph…
Pathways to Civic Engagement: Contributions, Unanswered Questions, and Multi-Level Investments | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Enrique W. Neblett, Jr. Suicide death rates for Black youth are increasing at alarming rates, and Latinx families report heightened anxiety amidst recent changes in immigration policy resulting…
Everyday Acts of Kindness and Bravery: Understanding Civic Engagement in Marginalized Contexts | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Emilie Smith. What is civic engagement? How is civic engagement played out in the lives of marginalized youth living in impoverished, and often violent neighborhood contexts? These…
Deepening the Research-Practice Conversation in Informal Learning Environments | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Katie McMillan Culp. The monograph Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums task of examining connections among young children’s exploration and explanation of gear exhibits in three children’s museums, parents’ interventions during…
Developmental Science Research with Children’s Museums, Not Just at Them | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Catherine A. Haden. In the midst of renewed calls for bringing developmental science out of the laboratory and into the real world, Callanan, Legare, Sobel et al…
Integrating Sociocultural and Constructivist Perspectives on Young Children’s Causal Learning | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Robert B. Ricco. Studies of young children’s causal learning in museums and other informal settings provide an important counterpoint to more laboratory-based, rational constructivist inquiries. In their monograph…
Challenges of Modeling Continuity and Change in Children’s Seriation and Ordinal Understanding | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. David W. Braithwaite. The monograph by McGonigle-Chalmers and Kusel (2019) describes a series of experiments providing evidence for discontinuity between ages 5 and 7 in children’s performance on seriation and ordinal understanding…