Neuroscience
In today’s world, young parents, like myself, are consistently bombarded with information about the "right way" to enrich our children’s lives. Books and TV programmes marketing the latest, typically entirely unproven "right way" have high visibility and prey on people's anxieties about providing the best for their children. This is where good psychology research has come to my rescue. I have been confidently uncompelled to buy various DVDs and books claiming to enhance my child’s abilities and development. On the other hand, psychology research has furnished me with good evidence that in a "good enough" environment (loosely consisting of "love, feed, clothe, be reasonably consistent and provide opportunities"; i.e. common sense backed up by data), my children are likely to thrive according to their individual abilities and characteristics.
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Essi Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at UCL, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit with Dr. Eamon McCrory. Her research combines genetic and neurocognitive methodologies to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and has been recognized by several awards, including the British Academy-Wiley Blackwell Prize for Psychology and the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal.
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Neuroscience
Essi Viding: A "good enough" child-rearing environment
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Essi Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at UCL, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit with Dr. Eamon McCrory. Her research combines genetic and neurocognitive methodologies to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and has been recognized by several awards, including the British Academy-Wiley Blackwell Prize for Psychology and the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal.
Return to menu for Psychology to the Rescue
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals to you don't have to: Developmental psychology - putting research into practice (Virtual Special Issue from Wiley). Empathy (Emotion Review). A developmental psychopathology perspective on emotional availability research...
- Simon Baron-cohen: Inter-generational Patterns Of Abuse
Imagine you’re in a shopping mall car park when you witness a woman scream at her child “I hate you! You’re an evil bastard! I’m leaving! You can look after yourself! I’m done looking after you! Good riddance. You don’t deserve a mother! I’ll...
- Switching The Parents Around
Judith Rich Harris: "In a 1995 paper in Psychological Review, I proposed a new theory of child development, based on the idea that children's personalities are shaped, not by their parents, but by the environment they encounter outside the home. This...
- Is Day Care Harmful To Small Children? The Latest Findings...
Does it matter that young children are spending increasingly more time in day care, as more women than ever before are choosing to return to work soon after giving birth? Yes, according to Jay Belsky in his round-up of the main findings from the NICHD...
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