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Developmental Psychology Oct 2022Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars... (Review)
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Theory and research have described developmental processes leading to damaged parent-child relationships, such as those that occur during a divorce. However, scholars dispute the scientific status of the literature on children who form unhealthy alliances with one parent against the other-termed parental alienation (PA). This comprehensive literature review tests competing descriptions of the PA literature. Accessing four electronic databases, we identified 213 documents with empirical data on PA published in 10 languages through December 2020. The results confirmed that the current state of PA scholarship meets three criteria of a maturing field of scientific inquiry: an expanding literature, a shift toward quantitative studies, and a growing body of research that tests theory-generated hypotheses. Nearly 40% of the PA literature has been published since 2016, establishing that PA research has moved beyond an early stage of scientific development and has produced a scientifically trustworthy knowledge base. This literature review documents the value of multiple research methodologies to this knowledge base. In addition, the growing body of research described in this review enhances our understanding of the association between interparental conflict and the breakdown of parent-child relationships in families where conflict differentially affects children's relationship with and behavior toward each parent. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Divorce; Family Conflict; Humans; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 35653764
DOI: 10.1037/dev0001404 -
Annual Review of Psychology 1965
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Topics: Adolescent; Child; Humans; Psychology, Adolescent; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 14268886
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.16.020165.000245 -
PsyCh Journal Aug 2022In recent decades, life history theory (LHT) has provided an important theoretical framework for understanding human individual differences and their developmental... (Review)
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In recent decades, life history theory (LHT) has provided an important theoretical framework for understanding human individual differences and their developmental processes. The conceptual complexity and multidisciplinary connections involved in the LH research, however, might appear daunting to psychologists whose research might otherwise benefit from the LH perspective. The main purpose of this review, therefore, is to introduce the evolutionary biological backgrounds and basic principles of LHT as well as their applications in developmental psychology. This review is organized into five parts, starting with an overview of key concepts in LHT, which clarifies the relationship among LH strategy, LH-related traits, and the fast-slow paradigm of LH variation. We proceed to review theoretical and empirical work related to four basic LH trade-offs, summarized by an integrated descriptive model of LH trade-offs that shape different LH strategies in humans. We then explain the effects of four aspects of environmental risks (morbidity-mortality threats, competition, resource scarcity, and unpredictability) on human LH strategy. This is followed by a discussion of LH calibration models in evolutionary developmental psychology that explicates the environmentally sensitive developmental processes that contribute to variation and plasticity in LH-related traits and ultimately human LH strategies. Finally, we highlight a few outstanding questions and future directions for LH research in psychology and conclude with why we think it is important that developmental psychology should embrace the LH approach.
Topics: Biological Evolution; Humans; Life History Traits; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 35599317
DOI: 10.1002/pchj.561 -
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal... Jan 2016As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories... (Comparative Study)
Comparative Study Review
As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories of the ways social and cognitive processes unfold through the lifespan. However, approaches that draw together developmental, cross-cultural and comparative perspectives remain rare. The need for such an approach is reflected in the papers by Heyes (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150069. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0069)), Schmelz & Call (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150067. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0067)) and Keller (2015 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 371, 20150070. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0070)) in this theme issue. Here, we incorporate these papers into a review of recent research endeavours covering a range of core aspects of social cognition, including social learning, cooperation and collaboration, prosociality, and theory of mind. In so doing, we aim to highlight how input from comparative and cross-cultural empiricism has altered our perspectives of human development and, in particular, led to a deeper understanding of the evolution of the human cultural mind.
Topics: Animals; Behavior, Animal; Biological Evolution; Cognition; Cooperative Behavior; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Humans; Learning; Psychology, Developmental; Social Behavior; Theory of Mind
PubMed: 26644590
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0071 -
The Journal of Genetic Psychology 2016A 1918 survey (H. E. Jones, 1956 ) indicated that only 3 psychologists in the United States expressed an interest in conducting research on child development. By the end... (Review)
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A 1918 survey (H. E. Jones, 1956 ) indicated that only 3 psychologists in the United States expressed an interest in conducting research on child development. By the end of the 1920s there were more than 600 who expressed such an interest, and their areas of inquiry encompassed not only child development but also adolescence, the lifespan, and old age. The author explores the factors and people that contributed to this remarkable transition and highlights some of the major contributions that resulted from their work.
Topics: History, 20th Century; Humans; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 27805491
DOI: 10.1080/00221325.2016.1243407 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2022Experimental research is reviewed which suggests that rational framing effects influence young children's social activities according to a logic of interdependence.... (Review)
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Experimental research is reviewed which suggests that rational framing effects influence young children's social activities according to a logic of interdependence. However, young children are unlikely to possess some of the elaborate cognitive skills argued in the Target Article to be prerequisite for rational framing effects. Understanding rational framing effects requires understanding their ontogenetic origins.
Topics: Child, Preschool; Humans; Psychology, Developmental; Social Behavior
PubMed: 36281871
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22000930 -
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral... Sep 2018As a developmental psychologist who has conducted studies in educational practice for about thirty years. A series of developmental psychology studies rooted in Chinese... (Review)
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As a developmental psychologist who has conducted studies in educational practice for about thirty years. A series of developmental psychology studies rooted in Chinese culture were performed, and the findings led us to focus on students' potential in growth, developmental fullness and educational ecosystem. This article mainly talked about three aspects: the viewpoints about the nature of psychological development formed in the context of school; promoting students' development by continually constructing cultural ecosystem; the characteristics of researches by taking the perspective of cultural ecology and discoveries about deficiency in basic abilities. All of these were based on educational objectives and conducted in educational practice, so they were integrative and dynamic transformation. In educational intervention, aesthetic potential was also found. The relation between aesthetic potential and full development was put forward.
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Child; Child Development; China; Culture; Humans; Psychology, Developmental; Schools; Students; Teaching
PubMed: 29855785
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-018-9438-6 -
Annual Review of Psychology 1957
Topics: Child; Humans; Psychology; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 13403609
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.08.020157.001035 -
Annual Review of Psychology 1958
Topics: Child; Humans; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 13509599
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.09.020158.001003 -
Annual Review of Psychology 1963
Topics: Behavior; Humans; Learning; Psychology, Developmental
PubMed: 13981960
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.14.020163.000245