Commentary by Dr. Ann S. Masten. Multisystem perspectives and methods are essential for understanding and countering the challenges posed to child development and wellbeing by political violence, as well as by…
Individual Lives and Social History: Extending the Lessons of Macrosystem Research beyond Northern Ireland | Commentary 85.4
Commentary by Dr. Andres Molano. In the SRCD Monograph, Townsend, Taylor, Merrilees, Furey, Goeke-Morey, Shirlow, and Cummings (2020) explore how the longitudinal associations between sectarian violence and emotional insecurity are…
Can Conceptions of Respect Be Useful in Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination? | Commentary 85.3
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 85.3
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 85.3
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 85.2
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 85.2
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 85.2
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 85.1
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 85.1
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…