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A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Explanatory parent–child conversation predominates at an evolution exhibit
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-07)
To investigate how parents support children's learning at an exhibit on evolution, the conversations of 12 families were recorded, transcribed, and coded (6,263 utterances). Children (mean age 9.6 years) and parents visited ...
The Role of Verbal Competence and Multiple Risk on the Internalizing Behavior Problems of Costa Rican Youth
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2006-12)
This longitudinal study examined internalizing behavior problems (anxiety/depression) in early adolescence in relation to adversity in early childhood and child verbal competence. We hypothesized that verbal competence ...
Buddy-to-Buddy, a citizen soldier peer support program to counteract stigma, PTSD, depression, and suicide
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2010-10)
Citizen soldiers (National Guard and Reserves) represent approximately 40% of the two million armed forces deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. Twenty-five to forty percent of them develop PTSD, clinical depression, sleep ...
Psychosocial Constraints on the Development of Resilience
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2006-12)
Although resilience is usually thought to reside in individuals, developmental research is increasingly demonstrating that characteristics of the social context may be better predictors of resilience. When the relative ...
Reduction of Birth Weight Among Infants Born to Adolescents: Maternal–Fetal Growth Competition
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1997-05)
Emotional Resilience in Early Childhood
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2006-12)
To test whether the development of emotional resilience is a function of sensitive caregiving and child negative affect, we tested the joint contributions of 7-month maternal sensitivity and infant negative affect to the ...