Seeking guidance from pediatricians and using available resources is crucial for addressing developmental delays and promoting healthy development. Early intervention during brain development's most ...

Mainstream empirical psychology tells us we should divide the human world into behaviors that we see and mental processes that we infer. That is, if we were to take this clip from Seinfeld where Jerry ...

Prosocial behaviors are voluntary actions intended to help others. Children display prosocial behavior when they share toys, comfort someone who is sad, or work together to complete a task. Share on ...

As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development, Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development ...

Is aggression part of our primate nature, wired into our systems because it helps us survive, or do we learn it from such seemingly innocent occupations as watching cartoons and wrestling matches on ...

Humans learn which behaviors pay off and which don't from watching others. Based on this, we may draw conclusions about how to act – or eat. In the case of the latter, people may use each other as ...

Without intervention, some of these delays and behaviors can have consequences for children in preschool and beyond. Since 2020, early care educators have reported a 60% increase in challenging ...