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Young Children’s Changing Reactions to Counterintuitive Claims
(2016-10-11)
This dissertation examines young children’s acceptance of, memory for, and doubts about counterintuitive claims. In Study 1, children aged 3- to 5-years in the United States and China were asked to categorize hybrids whose ...
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Risk for Psychopathology in Adolescents Exposed to Childhood Adversity
(2016-05-10)
Childhood adversity (CA) exerts a deleterious toll on mental health, contributing to population-wide disparities in educational attainment, economic productivity and responsible citizenship (Shonkoff et al., 2012). The ...
Exploring Intergenerational Effects of Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Mothers’ Educational Pursuits and Their Young Children’s Development
(2016-05-10)
The positive relationship between parental education and children’s educational outcomes is one of the most well established connections in the developmental literature. However, nearly all of this research treats parent ...
Uses of Complex Thinking in Higher Education Adaptive Leadership Practice: A Multiple-Case Study
(2016-05-13)
Research and theories of leadership development link the capacity for complex thinking to effectiveness at leading adaptive change. However, few empirical studies examine how this link operates in natural work settings, ...
The Marshmallow Test: Delay of Gratification and Independent Rule Compliance
(2016-05-13)
The Marshmallow Test, a self-imposed delay of gratification task pioneered by Walter Mischel in the 1960’s, showed that young children vary in their ability to inhibit impulses and regulate their attention and emotion in ...
Looking for Development in Leadership Development: Impacts of Experiential and Constructivist Methods on Graduate Students and Graduate Schools
(2016-05-17)
Nearly every graduate school, especially professional schools, claims to train, educate, and develop leaders. However, the leader-development literature offers little evidence of how a graduate level leader-development ...
Neural Precursors of Language in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2015-09-28)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication. Abnormal language development is a pervasive symptom of this disorder, though research has ...
Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)
Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ...
Patrilineal Ideology and Grandmother Care in Urban China
(2016-05-13)
My dissertation explores an important but understudied dimension of interaction in China’s declining patrilineal kinship system – the childcare support provided by grandparents. Traditionally, paternal grandparents exclusively ...
A Contributing Role of Parental Investments in Early Learning to Head Start Impacts on Children’s Language and Literacy: Examining How Mechanisms of Program Impact Differ for Spanish-Speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and Non-DLL
(2015-05-15)
Head Start is the largest and longest-standing publicly-funded preschool program, serving close to 1 million low-income children and their families, with an annual budget of over $10 billion. While early childhood programs ...