@NYTScience This article summarizes an expanse of research about the effects of ageism on the experienced health of elder people - science is accessible here as longitudinal studies are presented and the phenomena of racial health disparities is also explained #umassdev22#week14
Across her career, Yale psychologist Becca Levy “has shown that negative feelings about old age lead to bad outcomes in older people,” says geriatrician Dr. Louise Aronson https://t.co/5zENUdqLff
I'm excited to follow @ThaliaGoldstein because I am really interested in the intersection of creativity/art and emotional development #umassdev22#week14
You should follow @OSFramework to find out the latest in the world of scientific research and what's being done to maintain it's accessibility #umassdev22#week14
@CornellPsychDpt@hechingerreport@RobertSternbe19 This article summarizes some research being done on the effectiveness (or lack there of) of standardized testing - scientific research is accessibly framed here in terms of the explanations of the issue at hand as well as the proposed solutions #umassdev22#week13
A recent article in @hechingerreport features Professor @RobertSternbe19's discussion on his research about standardized tests and how they don't provide useful information on whether students will be successful in college.
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I'm following @childrenscreens for relevant research on media and children because this area of development is super interesting to me #umassdev22#week13
found @EarlyLearnNatn through my classmates and am following for current research and events within the field of development and learning 😍 #umassdev22#week13
Relevant to our unit in dev.psych about families and attachment this article talks about the learned behaviors of siblings in frame of child-favoritism. summarizes the findings briefly and clearly with references to several psychologists #umassdev22#week12
Following @Many_Babies to hear about the cutest kind of research and also for the exposure to the many other resources they share here #umassdev22#week12
I found @cconrymurray a psych professor who specializes in moral and gender development - these areas of study in the context of one another are so fun to think about #umassdev22#week12
#flashfact: what some call "the terrible twos" is an important stage in the development of toddlers' self concept - this usually involves the determination of one's own goals as separate from what their parents want them to do 👀 #umassdev22#week12
FLASHFACT! a 2013 study found that 61% of children under 5 are taken care of by someone who is NOT their mom on a daily basis! This could be a critique of the "strange situation" experiment that measures infant attachment #umassdev22#week12