Mostly heterosexual as a distinct sexual orientation group: A systematic review of the empirical evidence
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 1 Author(s): Ritch C. Savin-Williams , Zhana Vrangalova We reviewed empirical evidence regarding whether mostly heterosexual exists as a sexual orientation distinct from two adjacent groups on a sexual continuum—exclusively heterosexual and substantially bisexual. We addressed the question: Do mostly heterosexuals show a unique profile of sexual and romantic characteristics that distinguishes them as a separate sexual orientation group? We found sufficient data in four areas to support an affirmative answer. Individuals who acknowledged a mo...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The construct of psychophysiological reactivity: Statistical and psychometric issues
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 1 Author(s): Keith B. Burt , Jelena Obradović The purpose of this paper is to review major statistical and psychometric issues impacting the study of psychophysiological reactivity and discuss their implications for applied developmental researchers. We first cover traditional approaches such as the observed difference score (DS) and the observed residual score (RS), including a review of classic and recent research on their reliability and validity from two related bodies of work: the measurement of change and the Law of Initial Values. Seco...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Differentiated associations between childhood maltreatment experiences and social understanding: A meta-analysis and systematic review
Publication date: March 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 1 Author(s): Nikki Luke , Robin Banerjee The extreme parenting experiences encountered by children who are physically abused or neglected place them at increased risk for impaired socio-emotional development. There is growing evidence that maltreated children may apprehend interpersonal encounters in different ways from children without such traumatic histories. This systematic review examines the links between childhood physical abuse and neglect and various constituent skills of social understanding (including emotion recognition and underst...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A post-genomic view of behavioral development and adaptation to the environment
Publication date: June 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 2 Author(s): Peter LaFreniere , Kevin MacDonald Recent advances in molecular genetics and epigenetics are reviewed that have major implications for the bio-behavioral sciences and for understanding how organisms adapt to their environments at both phylogenetic and ontogenic levels. From a post-genomics perspective, the environment is as crucial as the DNA sequence for constructing the phenotype, and as a source of information in trying to predict phenotypes. The review is organized with respect to four basic processes by which phenotypes adapt ...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Situating maltreatment in the social context: Challenges for research
This article is a reply to Kagan’s (in press) commentary on our earlier article (Luke & Banerjee, 2013), which presented a meta-analysis and systematic review of research on the links between childhood maltreatment and social understanding. We address Kagan’s comments about the depiction of maltreatment as an isolated independent variable, and consider the specific obstacles faced by researchers in this area when seeking to understand the role played by social–contextual factors. We also consider how Kagan’s extension of our argument about heterogeneity in maltreated samples might usefully be applied to fut...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Contextualizing experience
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 Author(s): Jerome Kagan This paper extends the discussion of Luke and Banerjee published in an earlier issue of this Journal by suggesting that psychologists studying the effects of stressful experiences on a later outcome do not always acknowledge the possibility that the experience might be correlated with conditions that are necessary for the outcome. This essay argues that the victims of a stressful event are not a random sample of the population and often belong to gender, class, or ethnic groups during particular historical eras tha...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Gender differences in autobiographical memory: Developmental and methodological considerations
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 Author(s): Azriel Grysman , Judith A. Hudson Gender differences have surfaced in inconsistent ways in autobiographical memory studies. When apparent, researchers find gender differences such that women report more vivid memory experiences than men and women include more details about emotions, about other people, and about the meaningfulness of their memories. Specifically, females include more emotion, more elaboration, and a greater sense of connectedness to others in their narratives, and we consider the possible connection between th...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Developmental coordination disorder and internalizing problems in children: The environmental stress hypothesis elaborated
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 Author(s): John Cairney , Daniela Rigoli , Jan Piek There is a growing literature connecting poor motor coordination to physical and mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. These studies suggest that children with disorders such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) are at greater risk for depression and anxiety, as well as obesity, and poor physical fitness. With regard to internalizing problems (symptoms of depression and anxiety), there is also evidence to suggest that the environment may play an important role in ...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Understanding youth antisocial behavior using neuroscience through a developmental psychopathology lens: Review, integration, and directions for research
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 Author(s): Luke W. Hyde , Daniel S. Shaw , Ahmad R. Hariri Youth antisocial behavior (AB) is an important public health concern impacting perpetrators, victims, and society. Functional neuroimaging is becoming a more common and useful modality for understanding neural correlates of youth AB. Although there has been a recent increase in neuroimaging studies of youth AB and corresponding theoretical articles on the neurobiology of AB, there has been little work critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of individual studies and us...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The influence of proximal risk on the early development of the autonomic nervous system
Publication date: September 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 Author(s): Cathi B. Propper , Steven J. Holochwost In this paper we review the evidence linking the early development of the autonomic nervous system in early childhood to four proximal risk factors: maternal stress during pregnancy, maternal substance use during pregnancy, poor-quality parent–child interactions, and specific disruptions in parenting behavior. A clear pattern of altered autonomic function emerges in children exposed to proximal risk, marked by reduced parasympathetic tone under conditions of both homeostasis and challe...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Sensorimotor intentionality: The origins of intentionality in prospective agent action
Publication date: December 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 4 Author(s): Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt , Nivedita Gangopadhyay Efficient prospective motor control, evident in human activity from birth, reveals an adaptive intentionality of a primary, pre-reflective, and pre-conceptual nature that we identify here as sensorimotor intentionality. We identify a structural continuity between the emergence of this earliest form of prospective movement and the structure of mental states as intentional or content-directed in more advanced forms. We base our proposal on motor control studies, from foetal obser...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Detail-oriented cognitive style and social communicative deficits, within and beyond the autism spectrum: Independent traits that grow into developmental interdependence
Publication date: December 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 4 Author(s): Jeffrey M. Valla , Matthew K. Belmonte At the heart of debates over underlying causes of autism is the “Kanner hypothesis” that autistic deficits in social reciprocity, and a cognitive/perceptual ‘style’ favouring detail-oriented cognition, co-vary in autistic individuals. A separate line of work indicates these two domains are normally distributed throughout the population, with autism representing an extremity. This realisation brings the Kanner debate into the realm of normative co-variation, providing more ways to t...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Sampling in developmental science: Situations, shortcomings, solutions, and standards
Publication date: December 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 4 Author(s): Marc H. Bornstein , Justin Jager , Diane L. Putnick Sampling is a key feature of every study in developmental science. Although sampling has far-reaching implications, too little attention is paid to sampling. Here, we describe, discuss, and evaluate four prominent sampling strategies in developmental science: population-based probability sampling, convenience sampling, quota sampling, and homogeneous sampling. We then judge these sampling strategies by five criteria: whether they yield representative and generalizable estimat...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning
Publication date: December 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 4 Author(s): Lara A. Wood , Rachel L. Kendal , Emma G. Flynn This review investigates the presence of young children’s model-based cultural transmission biases in social learning, arguing that such biases are adaptive and flexible. Section 1 offers five propositions regarding the presence and direction of model-based transmission biases in young children’s copying of a model. Section 2 discusses the cognitive abilities required for differing model-based biases and tracks their development in early childhood. Section 3 suggests future a...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Motivational pathways to STEM career choices: Using expectancy–value perspective to understand individual and gender differences in STEM fields
Publication date: December 2013 Source:Developmental Review, Volume 33, Issue 4 Author(s): Ming-Te Wang , Jessica Degol The United States has made a significant effort and investment in STEM education, yet the size and the composition of the STEM workforce continues to fail to meet demand. It is thus important to understand the barriers and factors that influence individual educational and career choices. In this article, we conduct a literature review of the current knowledge surrounding individual and gender differences in STEM educational and career choices, using expectancy–value theory as a guiding framework. ...
Source: Developmental Review - November 4, 2014 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
