Author / Subject Index
Human Development 2022;66:161 (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - May 17, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Prelims
Human Development 2022;66:69 –71 (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - May 17, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Society News
Human Development 2022;66:159 –160 (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - May 17, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Vocabulary and Executive Functioning: A Scoping Review of the Unidirectional and Bidirectional Associations Across Early Childhood
Early childhood marks a time where word learning is accompanied by rapid growth in the cognitive processes that underlie self-modulated and goal-directed behavior (i.e., executive functions). Although there is empirical evidence to support the association between executive functioning and vocabulary in childhood, inconsistent findings have been reported regarding the extent to which early executive functioning abilities predict later vocabulary outcomes and vice versa. To clarify the nature of the longitudinal relation between these two processes and to examine what, if any, claims can be made about their interdependence, ...
Source: Human Development - May 11, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Purpose Should Be in the Eye of the Holder, not the Researcher
Researchers have discussed how best to define and measure purpose in life for decades, and this debate has been reinvigorated by recent work by Burrow et al. (2021), in their discussion of how to capture purpose development within a broader ecological context. However, in their commentary, Bronk and Damon (2021) have suggested that researchers also need to consider whether the individual's stated purpose in life merits development. We suggest here that multiple concerns present whenever researchers are placed in the seat of making decisions regarding whether an individual's purpose is "worthwhile," and how in turn this str...
Source: Human Development - April 19, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Scientific and Ethical Mandates in the Study of Purpose
We appreciate the letter by Hill and Pfund about our commentary and the opportunity to respond to it. It is exactly this type of interchange that advances understanding and clarity of communication in the scholarly community. The object of our commentary (Bronk Damon, 2021, “What makes a purpose ‘worth having’) was a thoughtful Human Development article by Burrow et al. (2021) entitled “Are all purposes worth having?” It should be clear from the titles of our commentary and the original article that the question explored by both pieces is how to determine whe ther a purpose chosen by a young person is worth havin...
Source: Human Development - April 19, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Erratum
Human Development (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - April 12, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Society News
Human Development 2022;66:67 –68 (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - April 5, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Neurodiversity as Politics
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Source: Human Development - March 25, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Come As You Are: Examining Autistic Identity Development and the Neurodiversity Movement through an Intersectional Lens
Singer intended for neurodiversity to be a new category of intersectionality. However, intersectionality has been neglected in autism research and practice. This paper aims to inform an intersectional approach to autism by exploring autistic identity development in relation to other marginalized identities. We reviewed literature about neurodiversity, intersectionality, discrimination, and the identity development of autistic people, racial/ethnic minorities, and gender and sexual minorities. We discuss minority stress and evidence that cultural traditions alleviate it. Autistic culture can reframe personal difficulties as...
Source: Human Development - March 21, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Conceptualising Autistic Masking, Camouflaging, and Neurotypical Privilege: Towards a Minority Group Model of Neurodiversity
This study uses Sara Ahmed and Frantz Fanon’s work on masking, alongside Judith Butler’s concept of performativity, to formulate distinct sociological definitions for Autistic masking and camouflaging. I offer a qualitative Critical Discourse Analysis of 2018’s #TakeThe MaskOff Neurodiversity Activism campaign, alongside psychology masking/camouflaging literature, to question the social drivers of masking and camouflaging. Autism is widely understood as an ‘Invisible’ Disability. However, I found that the necessity of masking and camouflaging to avoid discrimin ation renders Autistic people a ‘Visible Neuromino...
Source: Human Development - March 21, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Measuring Autistic Writing Skills: Combining Perspectives from Neurodiversity Advocates, Autism Researchers, and Writing Theories
Autism and writing are commonly discussed independently as complex, multifaceted entities. However, studies examining their intersections are limited and often oversimplify the nuances innate to both topics. This paper focuses on the complexities involved in studying autistic individuals ’ foundational writing skills (i.e., transcription and text generation skills) by drawing on theories of writing and autism grounded in perspectives from the neurodiversity movement. We frame our discussion around the complex sociocultural and cognitive factors important to writing by drawing on t he Writer(s)-within-Community model. Our...
Source: Human Development - March 11, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The Neurodiversity Approach(es): What Are They and What Do They Mean for Researchers?
This paper presents the concepts of “neurodiversity” and the “neurodiversity approaches” towards disability. This paper discusses how confusion regarding the meaning of these concepts exacerbates debate and conflict surrounding the neurodiversity approaches. For example, some claim the neurodiversity approaches focus solely on society and denies contributions of individual characteristics to disability (a controversial stance), whereas this paper joins other literature in acknowledging the contributions of both individual and society to disability. This paper also addresses other controversies related to neurodiver...
Source: Human Development - February 22, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Erratum
Human Development (Source: Human Development)
Source: Human Development - January 18, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A Reevaluation of the 1990 “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” IQ Study
In 1990, Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. and colleagues published the widely cited 1990 “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” (MISTRA) Science IQ study. To arrive at the conclusion that “IQ is strongly affected by genetic factors,” Bouchard and colleagues omitted their control group reared-apart dizygotic twin (“DZA”) IQ-score correlations. Near-full-sample correlations p ublished after the study’s 2000 endpoint show that the reared-apart monozygotic twin (“MZA”) and DZA group IQ correlations did not differ at a statistically significant level, suggesting that the study failed the first step in determining that...
Source: Human Development - January 12, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
