Attendance at a nursery/crèche staffed by professionals may be linked to better psychological development than being looked after by...

Perhaps nothing illustrates my general thesis that laughter is not about happiness but power more than the Dad Joke. The cheesy often...

Th Conversation has published a fascinating review of the research in how early averse childhood experiences can accelerate the aging...

New Northwestern University research analyzing the ways children's gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality found that...

For the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence....

A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports on a...

Children who struggle with weak cognitive control at an early age are at most risk for trouble in adulthood following their engagement in...

Working with families I always emphasis that parenting is not the fixed attribute inherent within the parent. Parenting is determined by...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first...

Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

When educators and coaches make kids feel like they matter, it reduces delinquency and destructive behavior. A new study led by a...

I am a big fan of Prof Walter Mischel and his wonderfully simple but hugely influential Marshmallow Tests (you can see some original...

Practitioners of a particular persuasion often take um-bridge at the idea that too much parental involvement can be a bad thing. This is...

New research shines a spotlight on the placenta's critical role in the nature versus nurture debate and how it confers risk for...

In lectures I often discuss the role of peer socialization on child development. This recent review in The Conversation caught my eye as...

Babies are not blank slates. Lecturing on child and adolescent development I often describe babies as being pre-loaded with systems that...

Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence,...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react...

In a new Canadian study, researchers from the Université de Montréal set out to investigate the genetic and environmental factors in...

Infographic courtesy of Aaron Weintraub In training and lectures on child and adolescent development I explore and discuss the lack...