The neighborhoods children grow up in are associated with cognitive and mental health outcomes across the lifespan. Yet how neighborhood-level factors are quantified, and how they relate to large-scal...

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Childhood family income is a powerful predictor of academic achievement and mental health. Here, we ask whether children living in poverty who succeed…

Introduction to JBLAC Webinar Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30p ET  This introductory webinar will provide an overview of the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)'s mission, s...

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...

Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather i...

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Background For families with young children, securing reliable childcare may present a significant challenge. Rising costs, limited resources and the COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the precarity ...

Caregiving is essential to the health and well-being of society. It shapes how we raise our children and how we tend to the ill, elderly, and disabled in our families and communities. We rely on paid ...

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Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…