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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
- Nov 07, 2020
What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
- Effective Way
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- Nov 07, 2020