Section on Child and Family Research

Head: Marc H. Bornstein

This section investigates dispositional, experiential, and environmental factors that contribute to physical, mental, emotional, and social development in human beings during the early years of life. Laboratory and home-based studies use experimental techniques, behavioral observations, psychophysiological recordings, standardized assessments, and demographic records to describe, analyze, and assess the capabilities and proclivities of developing children, the nature and consequences for children and parents of interactions within the family, and children’s exposure to and interactions with the inanimate environment. Research topics concern the origins, status, and development of constructs, structures, and functions in the early years of life; effects of child cognitive and social characteristics and activities on parents; and the meaning for children’s development of variations in parenting and in the family across different sociodemographic and cultural groups.

Resources

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• E-Mail the Lab: bornstem@mail.nih.gov
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