D. program in developmental psychology at NYU and president of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

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The study appears in the January 2011 issue of the journal Developmental Psychology.

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Take the time to prepare them emotionally for the big trip, suggests George Scarlett, a professor of developmental psychology at Tufts University.

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My field is not developmental psychology but Jungian and archetypal depth psychology.

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"If we are seeing a decline in literacy standards among young children, it is in spite of text messaging, not because of it, " said Clare Wood, reader in developmental psychology.

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Dr. Yoshikawa received the Boyd McCandless Award for early career contributions to developmental psychology from the American Psychological Association, and has served on the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation.

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Meanwhile, social psychology and developmental research seems to constantly look for the negative outcomes that gaming promotes.

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And to make matters worse, a century of developmental child pop-psychology has established cultural norms that are not easily reconciled with the realities of networked society.

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