- Dr. Natasha Cabrera won the award for Best Research Article Award from the National Council on Family Relations. 11/20/09
- Dr. Meredith Rowe joins the Human Development faculty as an assistant professor. 09/11/09
- Human Development professor Elisa Klein has been awarded an SRCD Executive Branch Policy Fellowship for the next academic year 07/24/09
- Human development Professors Fox and Bolger play leading roles in the University's new fMRI imaging center. 07/13/09
- EDHD Professor Melanie Killen wins an Honorable Mention for this year’s Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize. 06/18/09
- The 2009 Rachel Petty Dissertation Awards were given to Cassandra Coddington and Nicole Denmark 05/21/09
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EDHD Developmental Science Research Areas
Faculty in the Developmental Science specialization study a broad array of research areas crucial to the understanding of children's learning and development. Topics investigated include:
- Achievement motivation
- Aggression and delinquency
- Civic engagement
- Cognitive development
- Culture and context
- Development of at-risk children
- Developmental neuroscience
- Developmental psychopathology
- Early childhood education
- Emotional development
- Exclusion and inclusion
- Fatherhood
- Head Start
- Intergroup attitudes and relationships
- Language acquisition
- Language and literacy
- Mathematical reasoning
- Memory development
- Mixed methods research
- Moral reasoning
- Neuroscience and reading
- Parent-child relationships
- Peer relationships
- Prevention research and program evaluation
- Research and public policy
- Prejudice in childhood
- Self-concept
- Social cognition
- Social competence
- Social development
- Social motivation
- Social neuroscience
- Social-political cognition
- Social withdrawal and shyness
- Student-teacher relationships
- Temperament and personality development
