Commentary by Drs. Barbara Schneider and Lydia Bradford. Growth mindset has unquestionably established itself in the canon of psychological scholarship, and its contribution for impacting learning is widely recognized.
A Life Course Perspective on the Promise of Public Preschool | Commentary 88.1
Commentary by Dr. Eric Dearing. The Watts and colleagues’ Monograph provides a major contribution to our cumulative knowledge on when, for whom, and for how long public pre-K promotes achievement.
Using Research to Advance Implementation of Public Pre-Kindergarten | Commentary 88.1
Commentary by Dr. Brenda Jones Harden. In the middle of the last century, public schools in the United States (US) were contending with the integration of Kindergarten into traditional public education.
Confounding, Causal Inference, and the Nature of Parent Effects: The Utility of the Adoption Study Design | Commentary 87.1-3
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 87.1-3
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 87.1-3
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…
Three Perspectives on PAR: The Data, the Self, and the Uncle in the Bear Costume | Author Response 86.3
Author’s response to commentaries on Perceptual Access Reasoning (PAR) in Developing a Representational Theory of Mind.
Joint Engagement as a Triadic State and Joint Attention as an Infant Skill Shared by Humans and Chimpanzees | Commentary 86.4
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 86.4
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…
Sociocultural Context and Methodological Pluralism Matter for all Developmental Science | Commentary 86.4
Commentary by Thomas S. Weisner. In the monograph, Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-ecological Contexts, Kim Bard and her co-authors (2021) offer concepts and findings that really matter for our field.