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, ...

Graduate students work closely with faculty on all aspects of the research process from conception to fruition. With the personal training received through our program, students have been very ...

Developmental psychologists like Catarina Vales want to know how kids understand the world. Like all researchers, she relies on tools designed to assess how children learn. Though those tests and ...

Researchers have found that the maturation of the senses for smell and touch is closely linked in mice and that this strong interaction takes place within a narrow developmental time window. These ...

Children around the world encounter adversity in many forms, including poverty, trauma, family instability, and prenatal ...