News & Important Dates
RECENT RESEARCH BY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY
-Intervention programs that reduce conflict among divorced parents
Dr. Jeffrey Cookston recently published an article in Family Court Review providing evidence that after participation in a divorcing parent education curriculum parents reported less conflict, anxiety, and depression (see here). These results are important as they represent only the second time that a psychoeducational intervention program reduced conflict between parents after divorce. Incidentally, Dr. Cookston was also the lead author on that paper published in Family Processes in 2007 (see here). The Family Court Review article was discussed on the Huffington Post recently (see here).
-Exercise and executive functioning linked among obese children
Dr. Patricia Miller and her colleagues recently published an article reporting that their exercise intervention improved executive functioning (cognitive control) in obese children aged 7-11 (attached ). Other outcomes were improved math achievement scores and altered brain activity (fMRI). Importantly, the random clinical trials design included a no-exercise control group that did not improve. Other current research by Dr. Miller examines executive functioning more generally, including the role of gesturing in its development.
-Cross-cultural patterns in mathematic and verbal skill acquisition among young children
Dr. Jae Paik has recently led and
collaborated with her international colleagues from Netherlands,
Peru, and Taiwan examining cross-cultural differences in
preschoolers’ math ability (see
here). In another line of research, Dr. Paik examined
the effects of contexts and comparison processes on U.S. and
Korean 2- and 3-year-olds’ verb acquisition (see
here).
OTHER NEWS
-SRCD in
Montreal 2011-
The Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research
in Child Development will be April 1-4, 2011 in
Montreal, Canada.
Click
here to see what SFSU faculty and alumni will be presenting. Also, click
here to see what current and former students
of the Developmental Psychology program at SFSU
presented in 2007.
-SRA in Chicago in 2010-
The Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research
in Adolescence will be held March 10-13, 2010 in
Philadelphia.
It's still
not too late to join us! IClick
here
to learn about SFSU presentations at SRA in 2008.
photo August 2006
