New research has found that early childhood exposure to high ambient temperatures may hinder the development of foundational ...

A PhD in Applied Developmental Psychology will allow you to conduct empirical research aimed to improve the lives of others. You will be able to apply technical knowledge learned to real-world ...

There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Western, ...

Why do we study anxiety as a multi-faceted construct? Does it matter to our phenomenology, how we experience this emotion, and how we behave? This begs the question: What matters most in the study of ...

Co-authored by Camila Alviar, Ph.D. and Miriam Lense, Ph.D. Infants all over the world become masters of the language their community speaks within the first 3 years of life, a surprisingly short time ...

Even preschool children can recognize a hypocrite. And, just like adults, they don't have the best opinion of such people: they assess hypocrites more negatively than they do other people who break ...