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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Culture and Child Development: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Each semester, the Carolina Consortium on Human Development proseminar series concludes with the Robert B. Cairns Capstone Lecture in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scholarship and to the mentoring of developmental scientists. For this lecture, we honor one senior scientist in our field whose career and research program exemplifies Developmental Science. Dr. Cynthia García Coll from the University of Puerto Rico is the recipient of this honor for our Spring...

 E-Mail Babies learn the difference between "us" and "them" fairly early in life. Social categorization -- the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality -- can be a useful strategy when you're new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UC Santa Barbara developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman. The act of creating groups -- for instance, all the objects that can be categorized as some type of chair -- serves as an efficient learning tool for minds still le...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   Racism and Health: A Developmental Health Perspective as part of our Spring 2021 series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture, and Intersectional Approaches!  Join us Monday afternoons from 2:00 – 3:15 PM (EST) via zoom. Register here: https://fpgcdi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApc-ihqTIuHNyO-zh_qCpjqrl5k_PBnbJ9 Dr. Enrique Neblett is a Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Associate Director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research C...

Bio I recently completed my PhD in Psychology specializing in Developmental Science at Florida International university, where I studied neurological and cognitive predictors of individual differences in young children's learning and memory abilities. Along the way, I earned a minor in Quantitative Methods and a certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. But writing was my first love--ever since I was a kid journaling in her diary and writing poems about unrequited crushes. I began my venture into science communication when I was invited, along with my graduate advisor, to write a lay summary...

Abstract This paper addresses a challenge proposed against non-mindreading explanations of infant spontaneous-response task data. The challenge is a foundational assumption of mindreading explanations best summed up by Carruthers (Mind and Language, 28(2): 141-172, 2013, Consciousness and Cognition, 36: 498-507, 2015) claim that only by appealing to a theory of mind is it possible to explain infant responses in spontaneous-response false-belief tasks when there are no one-to-one correspondences between observable behavior and mental states. Heyes (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(2), ...