Nurseries Trump Parents for Child Development
Attendance at a nursery/crèche staffed by professionals may be linked to better psychological development than being looked after by...
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Phil Harris
Sep 27, 20182 min read
The Science of the "Dad Joke"
Perhaps nothing illustrates my general thesis that laughter is not about happiness but power more than the Dad Joke. The cheesy often...
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Phil Harris
Sep 10, 20181 min read
Averse Childhood Experiences and the Aging Process
Th Conversation has published a fascinating review of the research in how early averse childhood experiences can accelerate the aging...
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Phil Harris
Sep 10, 20183 min read
Awareness of Gender Bias Shows a Gender Bias
New Northwestern University research analyzing the ways children's gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality found that...
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Phil Harris
Sep 4, 20183 min read
Soft Marshmallows Become Hard Cash-Impulse Control Predicts Affluence
For the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence....
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Phil Harris
Aug 10, 20182 min read
Predicting Long Term Outcomes for Boys with ADHD
A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports on a...
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Phil Harris
Aug 10, 20183 min read
Poor Impulse Control: Most Kids Have It
Children who struggle with weak cognitive control at an early age are at most risk for trouble in adulthood following their engagement in...
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Phil Harris
Aug 9, 20182 min read
Do Your Kids Have Two Different Mothers?
Working with families I always emphasis that parenting is not the fixed attribute inherent within the parent. Parenting is determined by...
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Phil Harris
Jul 19, 20183 min read
Early Childhood Memories are Largely Fake
Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first...
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Phil Harris
Jul 4, 20182 min read
Mechanism for Gender Differences in Mental Health Identified?
Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...
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Phil Harris
Jul 4, 20183 min read
Effective Mentoring: What Matters is That They Matter
When educators and coaches make kids feel like they matter, it reduces delinquency and destructive behavior. A new study led by a...
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Phil Harris
Jun 27, 20189 min read
Special Feature: The Marshmallow Test (Slight Return)
I am a big fan of Prof Walter Mischel and his wonderfully simple but hugely influential Marshmallow Tests (you can see some original...
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Phil Harris
Jun 21, 20183 min read
Parents Who Love Too Much
Practitioners of a particular persuasion often take um-bridge at the idea that too much parental involvement can be a bad thing. This is...
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Phil Harris
May 31, 20184 min read
Schizophrenia: Is the Placenta the Missing Link?
New research shines a spotlight on the placenta's critical role in the nature versus nurture debate and how it confers risk for...
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Phil Harris
May 14, 20181 min read
Baby Talk
In lectures I often discuss the role of peer socialization on child development. This recent review in The Conversation caught my eye as...
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Phil Harris
May 9, 20183 min read
Babies Know When You Are Faking It
Babies are not blank slates. Lecturing on child and adolescent development I often describe babies as being pre-loaded with systems that...
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Phil Harris
Mar 20, 20184 min read
Teenage Hormones Not To Blame!
Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence,...
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Phil Harris
Jan 2, 20182 min read
The Anatomy of Psychopathic Tendencies Found?
Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react...
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Phil Harris
Jan 2, 20182 min read
Aggression in Childhood: Genes Influenced by Environment
In a new Canadian study, researchers from the Université de Montréal set out to investigate the genetic and environmental factors in...
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Phil Harris
Oct 16, 20178 min read
Special Feature: Attachment Theory- A Review of the Evidence
Infographic courtesy of Aaron Weintraub In training and lectures on child and adolescent development I explore and discuss the lack...
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