Comparative Human Development

In critical approaches to the study of whiteness, white ignorance refers to systematic and intentional ways of (not) knowing that function to perpetuate racism. The curre [...]

Testosterone plays important roles in reproductive behaviour in many species. Despite a common belief that testosterone regulates fluctuations in human sexual desire, the [...]

Language is a productive system––we routinely produce well-formed utterances that we have never heard before. It is, however, difficult to assess when children first achi [...]

We present an exploratory cross-linguistic analysis of the quantity of target-child-directed speech and adult-directed speech in North American English (US & Canadian [...]

Our hands are always with us and are used for communication all over the world. When children do not have an established language model to learn from, they use their hand [...]

This article looks at practices of discernment in disability spaces in India by analyzing (hierarchical) relational contexts in which disability professionals and dis [...]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many DeafBlind children were left without access to educational services when schools went remote. This article presents findings from a pro [...]

This exploratory study aims to extend and strengthen the empirical case for supervision as a facilitator of professional growth, as outlined in an established conceptual [...]

A hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca has increasingly played a role in drawing people from around the world to the Peruvian Amazon. They come seeking healing and spi [...]

This dissertation explores the landscape of youth navigating community violence in Chicago, drawing from the perspectives of both youth and trauma clinicians. Through sem [...]

This dissertation investigates the inequitable distribution and causal impacts of mathematics teachers' content knowledge for teaching (CKT) on instructional quality and [...]

This dissertation examines the relational context between special educators and intellectually disabled adults in Pune, India. It analyzes how special educators intervene [...]

This dissertation explores the relationship between generational change, the transmission of memory, and political ideology in post-genocide Rwanda. In 1994, decades o [...]

Background and Method: The experiences of 454 psychotherapy trainees when providing therapy to patients were surveyed in a multinational sample largely from European c [...]

Introduction: Hand gestures and actions-with-objects (hereafter ‘actions’) are both forms of movement that can promote learning. However, the two have unique affor [...]

Often perceived as a social liability, millions of individuals worldwide grapple with mental health issues amidst insufficient support services. This includes highly vuln [...]

There is increasing pressure for the juvenile criminal legal system to address trauma; this is in response to advances in the science of trauma and adversity, evidence fr [...]

Since its launch in a 1984 Special Issue of Child Development, significant contributions and insights have followed that have expanded our understanding of psychopatholog [...]

This dissertation project, The Double Binds of Crisis and Recovery: Constituting Space,Place, and Subjecthood in Flint, Michigan, explores how ongoing cycles of crisis an [...]

Importance: Screening adolescents in emergency departments (EDs) for suicidal risk is a recommended strategy for suicide prevention. Comparing screening measures on pr [...]

The lack of diversity in the language sciences has increasingly been criticized as it holds the potential for producing flawed theories. Research on (i) geographically di [...]

Background: Pathophysiology of rhinitis in older adults is largely unknown. We tested whether air pollution is associated with this condition and how immune mechanisms [...]

Prediction of mortality has focused on disease and frailty, although antecedent biomarkers may herald broad physiological decline. Olfaction, an ancestral chemical sys [...]

Language is a universal human ability, acquired readily by young children, who otherwise struggle with many basics of survival. And yet, language ability is variable acro [...]

Drawing on anthropological scholarship on the senses, embodiment, and communication, we argue for a capacity-based anthropology that takes account of human variation in a [...]