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Division 7 Newsletter-Summer 2007

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN – LAURENCE STEINBERG...……...... ……………… .….1 WELCOME TO APA 2007! DIVISION 7 PROGRAM………………………………………………………………………….… 3 THE 27TH EMINENT WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY FEATURES 3 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS! .....6 DIVISION 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS OF DIVISION 7 FELLOWS………………………………….…….. ….….8 CHECK OUT OUR NEW AND IMPROVED WEBPAGE……………………………………….……...... 9 SCIENCE POLICY AND FUNDING NEWS……………………………………………………....9 OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS………………………………………………………………….....11 UPCOMING CONFERENCES…………………………………………………………………… 12 DIVISION 7 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE………………………………………………………...13

members as they transition into faculty and similar positions is not. PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Laurence Steinberg I think we are all pretty much in agreement about the cause of this slippage: the high cost of The Division’s Executive Committee met this past membership in APA and the perception that what March, during SRCD, and we made some one receives from an APA membership does not important decisions that I’d like to share with all justify the high price of admission. At our March of you. meeting, the Executive Committee discussed several possible responses to the problem. (I have As I’ve written previously, my top priority as also been in touch about this issue with Alan President is to green and grow the Division’s Kazdin, the APA President-Elect, who is well membership. In case you missed the last aware of the problem and who assures me that it Newsletter, in my column I described the is not specific to Division 7.) One response that Division’s demographics and expressed my was discussed at length, both at our meeting and concern that our membership is aging and that at a separate meeting of DOTDEP (Directors of younger developmental psychologists are not Training in Developmental Psychology), was to joining the Division at the rate we would hope. change the Division’s bylaws to permit Our recruitment of graduate students is individuals to join the Division without being respectable, but our ability to hold onto these APA members. (A few other APA Divisions are

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structured in this way.) After considerable folks how important Division 7 is to discussion, we decided against this. The near- developmental science, and how important APA universal sentiment among DOTDEP and is to science policy, than to involve our up-and- Executive Committee members is that one crucial coming leaders in APA governance early on in role that the Division plays inheres in our ability their careers? Accordingly, we are to influence APA policy and practice. Because recommending that two new slots on the our voice on the APA Governing Council is Executive Committee be incorporated into our dependent on the size of our APA membership, bylaws: one slot will be for an Early Career any reduction in that number would weaken our representative to APA (which is developing place within the larger organization. Given the several new initiatives designed to involve and role that APA plays (and continues to play) in appeal to members who have recently completed lobbying for science funding, influencing science their graduate education), and one will be for an policy, and advocating around children’s issues, Early Career Member-at-Large of the Executive developmental psychology needs to be Committee. Look for these slots on the next represented at the APA table. Division ballot.

We then decided to approach the problem from a And speaking of ballots, the results of our last different angle. What can the Division offer its election are in and official. I’m pleased to members that might justify the high cost of announce that Sandra Graham is the new Division membership (that is, membership in APA – our Secretary; that Martha Alibali and Robyn Fivush Division dues are very low)? Now that most of us have been elected as Members-at-Large of the are able to access electronic journals through Executive Committee; and that Xinyin Chen and university library subscriptions, we need to think Phil Zelazo have been elected to our Fellows of other ways to assist and support our members Committee. They will be replacing Jodie Plumert than by subsidizing subscriptions to (Secretary); Gail Goodman and Sarah Developmental Psychology and other APA Mangelsdorf (Executive Committee Members); publications. One set of benefits we discussed will and Claire Kopp and Ken Rubin (Fellows be organized through DOTDEP. Thanks to Committee Members). I want to give special Marsha Weinraub, the current DOTDEP chair, we thanks to Jodie for her outstanding work as have developed a website that provides Secretary during the past three years; this is a information to prospective graduate students position whose work is carried out mainly behind about what to look for in a graduate program in the scenes, but it is one that is vital to the developmental psychology. (By the way, please Division’s well-being. I’m also delighted to be sure to check out the new and improved report that Kali Trzesniewski will be taking over Division 7 website designed by our new as Newsletter Editor after Simona Ghetti’s term is Webmaster, Louis Manfra, at over, at the end of this year. Simona, thanks so http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7.) A second effort in much for your fabulous work as Editor for the this spirit will be a syllabus exchange and past three years. teaching resource website, also to be developed by DOTDEP, that will be open only to Division In later columns of this Newsletter you’ll find members. I welcome any and all suggestions for information about our terrific program at this other services the Division might be able to year’s APA meeting. Highlights include lectures provide, especially those that might have special by award winners Jay Belsky, George Hollich, appeal to our younger colleagues. Nora Newcombe, and Alan Sroufe, and an invited address by Chuck Nelson. Don’t forget our Speaking of younger colleagues, the Executive Division reception, from 5-7 on Saturday August Committee is recommending two changes in our 18th, in the Yerba Buena Salons 5 and 6 of the San bylaws, which we will vote on at our business Francisco Marriott. See you there! meeting this August. What better way to show

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WELCOME TO APA 2007! SATURDAY, August 18 August 17-20, San Francisco, CA Conversation Hour Coping With Racism and Psychological Adjustment Division 7 Program in African American Adolescents 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM, Moscone Center, Room 3003

[Only first authors or presenters are listed]

Chair: Enrique W. Neblett, PhD FRIDAY, August 17 Paper Session Poster Session

Young Researchers in Developmental Psychology--- Cognitive and Social Development

Selected Student Papers 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM, Moscone Center, Halls ABC 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM, Moscone Center, Room 2005 Hua Feng, PhD Chair: David H. Rakison, DPhil Temperament Dimension Study of Autistic Children in Taiwan Elizabeth M. Oliva, BA Chih-Hung Wang, PhD Adolescent Substance Use Predicts Early Adult ADHD Temperament Scale Development in Taiwan Competence and Behavioral Problems Constance M. Brooks, MA Kristen E. Lyons, MA Risk Factors and Sexual Behaviors: Attitudes as a Metacognitive Development in Early Childhood: Mediating Factor Can Preschoolers Monitor Their Thinking? Linda Leal, PhD Yoko Tsubota, MS Number of Sports and Risky Sexual Behavior in

Young Children’s Abstract Reasoning: Relational Adolescent Girls Mapping Chien Chou, PhD Arianne D. Stevens, MA Tool, Toy, Telephone, or Information: Children’s Behavior in Japanese Preschool Children Perceptions of the Internet

Tony X. Tan, EdD Janean E. Dilworth-Bart, PhD Eighteen to 35-Month-Old Chinese Girls’ Maternal Scaffolding and Preterm Toddlers’ Children’s Physiological Responses to Emotional Visual—Spatial Processing and Emerging Working Films: Social and Emotional Outcomes Memory Mark J. Celano, BS Elizabeth Mazur, PhD Social Attribution to Animated Shapes by Typical Explorations of Identity and Interaction in Children and Adolescents Adolescent Web Logs Meghan E. McGrady, BA Lawrence C. Angrave, PhD Emotion Knowledge Development in Preschoolers Infant Gestures Predict Verb Production One Year

Receiving Head Start Services Later Gretchen S. Lovas, PhD Invited Address Gender, Emotional Availability, and Language Development in Parent—Toddler Dyads 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM, Moscone Center, Room 304 Natsumi Sonoda, PhD Chair: Laurence Steinberg, PhD Relationship between Self-Regulation and Prosocial Charles A. Nelson, PhD Postadoption Language Development Effects of Early Psychosocial Adversity on Brain and Monique M. Jethwani-Keyser, MEd Behavioral Development: The Bucharest Early School Social Climate and the Psychological Well- Intervention Project Being of Adolescent Girls in India Tracy R. Gleason, PhD Invited Address Adolescent Gender Differences in Imaginative G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Activities and Imaginary Relationships Contribution to Developmental Psychology David B. Estell, PhD 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM, Moscone Center, Room 301 Best Friendships of Students with and Without Chair: Laurence Steinberg, PhD Learning Disabilities L. Alan Sroufe, PhD Kumiko Fujioka, PhD Developmental Change in Preschoolers’ Private Place of Development in Developmental Speech: Longitudinal Study Psychopathology

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Ann-Marie Faria, BS Christopher G. Warren, BS Longitudinal Relationship between Early Language Effects of Sleep Restriction on Speech Perception in and Behavior in High-Risk Toddlers Children Zena R. Mello, PhD Claudia Kouyoumdjian, MA Adolescent Time Perspective: Temporal Dimensions Ethnic Group Differences in Adolescent Women’s and Implications for Psychological Development Sources of Social Support for Sexual Health Toni C. Antonucci, PhD, MA Problems Are Socially Connected Children Happy in Young Nathanael G. Mitchell, MEd Adulthood? Self-Concept of Rural Children: Contributions of Barbara J. McPherson, BA Adiposity and Fitness Coloring within the Lines: Gender Stereotypes in Heidi R. Tennyson, MS Children’s Coloring Books Moral Behavior in Young Children: Self-Regulation Chavez M. Phelps, BS Development in Constructivist Classrooms Oral Narration and Emergent Literacy in African Orlando M. Barker, MS, BA American Families Communalism, Prosocial Morality, and Kinship Rachel W. Friendly, BA Support Among African American Adolescents Role of Expectations in Children’s Experience of Daniel K. Sims, AA Novel Events Adolescents’ Perspectives on the Value and Mary E. Varn, MA Difficulty of Prosocial Behaviors Examining Planning Deficits in Children: ADHD or Cognitive Developmental Shift? Executive Committee Meeting Lorraine McCune, EdD 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM Early Verbs Reflect Prelanguage Cognition and San Francisco Marriott Hotel Motion Event Semantics Sierra Conference Suite G Amélie Nantel-Vivier, BA Prosocial Development during Childhood: Findings from a Longitudinal National Survey Invited Address Cari Pugh, MA G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Object Properties and Initial Word Acquisition Contribution to Developmental Psychology Hugh Floyd, PhD 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM, Moscone Center-Room 2016 Considering the Development of Prosocial Behavior: Chair: Laurence Steinberg, PhD Gender, Religion, and Sports Carolyn D. Tudisco, BA Nora S. Newcombe, PhD Cognitive Developmental Approach to Exploring the How Minds Develop: Cutting the Nativist Knot Achievement Gap in Mathematics Kimberly L. Goodman, MS Perceiving Peer Rejection through Rose Colored Invited Address Glasses: Positive Reappraisal as Coping Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime John W. Hagen, PhD Contribution to Developmental Psychology Research on Children and Youth: Who Is Studied? 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM, Moscone Center-Room 2016 Patricia H. Miller, PhD Chair: Laurence Steinberg, PhD Vigorous Exercise Intervention Affects Overweight Jay Belsky, PhD Children’s Executive Functioning Child Care and Child Development Ellen M. Herr-Israel, PhD Mothers’ Conversation and SSWUs: A Semantic Bridge to Multiword Speech Business Meeting Marissa E. Hobbs, MA 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM Sorority Eating Patterns: A Longitudinal San Francisco Marriott Hotel Investigation Yerba Buena Salons 3 and 4 Isabelle A. Eckelhofer, MA Exploration of Coping Style, Gender, and Gender Role on Adaptation to College in First-Year Social Hour Undergraduates 5:00 PM - 6:50 PM Lindsay N. Klarman, BS, BA San Francisco Marriott Hotel Deaf and Hearing Infants’ Preference for American Yerba Buena Salons 5 and 6 Sign Language

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Poster Session Emotion, Temperament, and Parenting Invited Address 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM, Moscone Center-Halls ABC Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award Ane Naerde, PhD 10:00 AM - 10:50AM, Moscone Center-Room 3010 Developing Tasks for the Longitudinal Study of Chair: Laurence Steinberg, PhD Parent—Child Interaction George Hollich, PhD Diane Sunar, PhD Language-Learning from the Earliest Stages of Continuing Effects of Early Intervention in Adult Life Typical Development Amy R. Ransom, BS Patterns of Parenting, SES, and the Authoritarian Paper Session Continuum: Antecedents of Locus of Control Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development Julie Poehlmann, PhD 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM, Moscone Center- Emerging Self-Regulation in High-Risk Infants: Rooms 252/254/256 Differential Susceptibility to Parenting? Janice L. Zeman, PhD Chair: David H. Rakison, DPhil Development of the Children’s Pride Management Scale Tuppett M. Yates, PhD, MA Diana Morelen Interplay of Competence and Adversity across the Cultural Comparison of Children’s Emotion Elementary School Years Regulation: Ghana and the United States Vaishali V. Raval, PhD Kyung Hwa Kwag, PhD Emotion Socialization and Regulation in Asian Effects of Negative Life Events and Parenting on Indian Children With Behavior Problems Problem Behaviors in Adolescents Elizabeth A. Daniels, PhD Toni Falbo, PhD Media Representations of Women Athletes: How Are Sibling Effects on Health in Later Life Girls Affected? Amy N. Ho, BA Mark C. Samuels, PhD Longitudinal Study of Parents’ Perceptions of Is a Circle Spicier Than a Tricycle? Preschoolers’ Children’s Academic Engagement Response Biases Donna Marie Caro, MA Kristine Amlund Hagen, PhD Relationship between Temperament and Personality Social Competence and Antisocial Behavior: across the Life Span Continuity and Distinctiveness in Adolescence Jun Ying Ao, MS Relations between Cultural Values and Parental MONDAY, AUGUST 20 Attachment among Asian Students Jin Lee, BA Symposium Developmental Knowledge and Parenting Behavior Family Violence and Drug-Use Trajectories Eun-Jeong Kim, PhD 8:00 AM - 9:50 AM, Moscone Center-Room 3000 Development and Validation of the 5-Factor Temperament Inventory for Preschoolers Chairs: Jessica Chambers, PhD and Meyer Glantz, PhD Dani Hodge, MA Predictors of Pathology in Mothers of Children with Cynthia Larkby, PhD Autism Childhood Maltreatment and Substance Use in Mid- Dani Hodge, MA Adolescence Parental Perceptions of Sleep in Children with and Fred A. Rogosch, PhD Without Autism Child Abuse and Neglect, Family Violence, and Yu-Jin Kim, MA Adolescent Drug Use Parenting and Temperament in Preschoolers Carolyn Smith, PhD David R. Cross, PhD Impact of Domestic-Violence Exposure on Adult Home-Based Intervention for an Adopted Child with Drug Use RAD and Bipolar Disorder Cathy S. Widom, PhD Tony X. Tan, EdD Revisiting the Childhood Victimization and Drug Chinese Children’s Preadoption Orphanage Abuse Relationship at Age 40 Experience Talibah E. Buchanan, PhD Concordance of Attachment between Deaf—Hard-of- Hearing and Hearing Siblings

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Michael A. Wilkins, BS Dimensions of Psychological Wellness Personality Traits, Attachment Style, and Eileen M. Brady, PhD Complicated Grief College Students Perceptions of the Parenting Styles Tami B. Rigterink, MEd of Real and Ideal Parents Children’s Stress-Reactivity and Internalizing: The Matthew J. Bundick, MA, MEd Interaction between Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase New Perspectives on Youth Purpose: Seeking Louise Tedford, BA Purpose versus Having Purpose Generation Differences in Mexican American Paper Session Mothers’ Cultural Models of Parenting Role of Parents, Families, and Home Amanda R. Howard, MS Environments on Development Evaluation of Theraplay® Using a Sample of Autistic 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM, Moscone Center-Room 2002 Children Brandi Young, BS Cross-Cultural Differences in Temperament Chair: Laura Namy, PhD Characteristics: Comparing U.S. and Spanish Infants Jessica L. Maples Robert S. Weisskirch, PhD, MSW Parents’ Effects on Development of Cognitive Parenting by Cell Phone Vulnerabilities to Adolescent Depression Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari, PhD Kim H. Har, MA Longitudinal Evaluation of Personal Growth among Parental Intrusiveness: Children’s Self-Efficacy, Mothers of Preterm Twins Separation Anxiety, and Academic Performance Brett M. Kia-Keating, EdD, MA Ryan J. Kelly, BA Interaction among Gender, Family Socioeconomic Marital Conflict, Bedtime Rituals, and Children’s Status, and Neighborhood Disorder in the Prediction Sleep: A Mediating Relationship of Violent Behavior Angelica M. Almeida, BA Nadia Sorkhabi, PhD Rigid Maternal Control and Social Competence in Parent—Adolescent Conflict: Parenting Practices Hard of Hearing/Deaf Adolescents and Regulated Domains Holly S. Petaja-Benson, MA Thomas E. Wasser, PhD, MEd Emotion Regulation and Child Outcomes: The Application of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale— Mediating Role of Empathy Children (BPRS-C) as an Outcomes Measure in the Yavette L. Vaden Residential and Foster-Care Setting Evaluating Ethnic Differences in Parental The 27th Symposium on Eminent Involvement Christina M. Rinaldi, PhD Women in Psychology features 3

Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Styles and Links to developmentalists! Toddler Behavior Carisa K. Perry-Parrish, MA Exploring Ethnic Differences in Children’s Self- The first Symposium on Eminent Women in Reported Management of Anger and Pride Psychology: Historical and Personal Perspectives Chrystal J. Agnor, MA was organized and chaired by Agnes N. Parents and Children Discuss Forgiveness: Emotion O’Connell for the annual meeting of the Language and Vocal Affect Eric A. VandeVoorde, BA American Psychological Association (APA) in Parent—Child Communication about Death and 1979. These symposia have been so successfully Sensitive Topics: A Literature Review received that the Eminent Women in Psychology Erika Feinauer, EdD Symposium in 2007 marks an extraordinary and Body Image Discrepancies in Caucasian and unusual convention event--a symposium that has Hispanic Adolescents and Mothers reached its Twenty-Seventh Anniversary. Lindsey M. Kremmel, MA Dr. O’Connell’s purposes in organizing these Attention Mediates the Relationship between Meta- symposia are to recognize, preserve, and celebrate Emotion Coaching and Academic Achievement Erika D. Hinds, BS, BA the contributions of women to psychology, Parenting Styles as a Moderator of the Association illuminate notable role models, aid in the between Economic Stress and Adolescent Self-Esteem acculturation of women into the field, and Charles T. Block, BS underscore a positive psychology of achievement, Adult Romantic Attachment and Multiple resilience, strength, and courage.

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The participants in the Twenty-Seventh Eminent and Advocacy, the Asian American Psychological Women in Psychology Symposium: Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement/ and Personal Perspectives are groundbreaking Contributions Award among others, and is an women whose leadership roles and contributions APA Fellow in Divisions 12 and 45. transformed the discipline of psychology. These pioneering women have been recognized for In addition to Dr. Chang, 3 eminent making "outstanding and unusual contributions" developmental psychologists are featured in the to psychology by receiving prestigious awards, symposium: holding important positions, and achieving Fellow status in APA and other professional Carol S. Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton organizations. The impressive honors they have Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. received and the impact of their various Previously, she was the William B. Ransford contributions to psychology emphasize their Professor at Columbia University. She earned her distinguished status and facilitate their serving as PhD at Yale University. Her research examines role models. This year participants are: self-conceptions, their role in motivation and self- regulation, and their impact on achievement and Alice F. Chang, President and co-founder of the interpersonal processes. Her numerous book Academy of Cancer Wellness, is affiliated with chapters and journal articles include two citation the University of Arizona as a research scientist, classics on learned helplessness and an award and has a private practice. She received her winning book on Self-Theories: Their Role in doctorate from the University of Southern Motivation, Personality and Development. Her California. She has an impressive number of book other books include Personal Politics; The and journal publications, invited addresses, paper Handbook of Competence and Motivation; and the presentations, symposia, and workshops on a very recent Mindset (published in twelve variety of health related, professional, and ethnic languages) on the role of self-theories in minority issues as well as a play, Trees Don’t achievement, sports, business, relationships and Mourn the Autumn, on breast cancer and personal change. ethnicity. Dr. Dweck, an internationally sought after Dr. Chang, the first ethnic minority woman to speaker, has presented countless keynote be elected to the APA Board of Directors, addresses including keynote addresses at APA, frequently has served APA governance as APS, the World Congress of Sport Psychology in member of the Board of Professional Affairs and Sydney, Australia, and the Conference on the Committee on Structure and Function of Children’s Learning in Edinburgh, Scotland; and Council and as liaison to the Committee on the many distinguished lectures including the APA G. Advancement of Professional Psychology, the Stanley Hall Lecture, the Distinguished Lecture at Board of Education Affairs, and the Ethics the University of Hamburg, Germany, and an Committee among others. She has served on invited lecture at Cambridge University, England. journal editorial boards including the American Among Dr. Dweck’s honors and awards are Psychologist, Stress/Pain Manager, and the election to the prestigious American Academy of Journal of Cultural Diversity and Mental Health. Arts and Sciences and receiving the World She is recipient of many awards including the Federation Book Award (an organization of the prestigious APA Distinguished Professional UN and UNICEF). Contributions Award, the Karl F. Heiser APA Presidential Award for Outstanding Gail S. Goodman, an internationally acclaimed Contributions, the Harold Hildreth Award for developmental psychologist, is Distinguished Distinguished Outstanding Service in Public Professor of Psychology and Director of the Service Psychology, Division 45’s Distinguished Center for Public Policy Research at the Career Contributions to Service Award, the APA University of California, Davis. She received her Graduate Student Award for Support, Mentoring, PhD from UCLA. She has hundreds of scientific

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chapters, articles, invited addresses, and papers as Relationships Between Home and School; well as several books on child abuse, child Interacting with Video; and Weaving Generations witnesses, and the dynamics of romantic love. Together. Her research is supported by numerous grants Dr. Greenfield’s awards include the American from NIMH, NSF, and others. Association for the Advancement of Science Dr. Goodman is the recipient of many Award for Behavioral Research, Division 2’s prestigious awards including two APA Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award, the Distinguished Contributions awards in 2005: the James McKeen Cattell Award, and the Gold Distinguished Contributions Award for Research Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence on Public Policy and the Distinguished among others. She is a Fellow in the American Professional Contributions Award for Applied Association for the Advancement of Science, the Research; and the American Academy of Forensic American Association of Applied Psychology, Psychology Award for Distinguished APA Divisions 7, 9, and 46, and APS. She serves Contributions; the American Professional Society on several boards including the National on the Abuse of Children Research Career Academy of Sciences Board and the editorial Achievement Award; the APA Division 37 boards of the Journal of Mental Imagery and the Nicholas Hobbs Award; the Division 41 Teaching Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. and Mentoring Award; the Division 9 Robert Chin Award among others. She is a Fellow in DIVISION 7 APA Divisions 3, 7,9, 37, and 41 and in APS. Dr. Goodman has served as President of APA ANNOUNCEMENTS Divisions 41 (American Psychology-Law Society) and 37 (Child, Youth, and Family Services) and is a founding member of the American Professional CALL FOR NOMINATIONS OF Society on the Abuse of Children. She has served, DIVISION 7 FELLOWS or is serving on more than a dozen editorial It is the time of the year to nominate colleagues boards including Child Developmental, Applied for the honor of being named a Fellow of Division Cognitive Psychology, Applied Development 7 of APA. The designation of Fellow in the Sciences, and Trauma, Victims, and Abuse. Division of Developmental Psychology is awarded to those members of the Division who, in Patricia M. Greenfield, a pioneer in the analysis the judgment of their peers, have made a of complex cognitive functions and a founder of distinguished scientific or scholarly contribution developmental pragmatics, is Professor of to the field of developmental psychology. The Psychology at UCLA, founding Director of the contribution will ordinarily take the form of FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and published papers or books documenting the Development, and Director of the Children’s candidate’s empirical research, the development Digital Media Center. She received her doctorate of theory or methods, or other scholarly pursuits. from Harvard University. Please note that nominees may already be Fellows Her cross-cultural studies examine the impact in other divisions of APA, in which case the of culture on human development especially procedures are somewhat streamlined. Nominees cognitive functions in infants, children, and young for Fellow must be members of APA Division 7. adults. Her hundreds of publications include Any member of Division 7 may nominate books on Studies in Cognitive Growth (translated someone for Fellow status, and self-nominations into seven languages); Infant Curriculum; The are accepted. Please take a minute to think of Structure of Communication in Early Language; colleagues who deserve to be nominated as Mind and Media: The Effects of Television, Video Division 7 Fellow. A list of current Fellows is Games, and Computers (translated into nine posted at: http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/?d=fellow languages); Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority People not on this list can be nominated. If they Child Development; Improving Cross-Cultural are not already members of Division 7, please

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encourage them to join so they can be considered. questions/comments to various Division 7 To learn more about the nomination process visit committee members the webpage above. Nominations should be For information concerning the Division 7 received by December, 1 2007. webpage, please contact our webmaster, Louis Manfra, [email protected]

CHECK OUT OUR SCIENCE POLICY AND NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE! FUNDING NEWS http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/ The Division 7 website offers a wealth of useful SCIENCE POLICY information. In addition to general information The Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) about the membership, you will find: Appropriations Subcommittee passed the 2008 ♦ Listing of Graduate Programs in Develop- spending bill on June 27, 2007. The bill provides mental Psychology $54.6 billion for the Departments of Commerce DOTDEP maintains a helpful list of graduate and Justice, NSF, NASA, and other related training programs in developmental psychology independent agencies. This bill marks up the and related disciplines (with links to each President 's budget request by $3.18 billion. department's WebPages). This is a great resource The subcommittee stated the importance of for prospective graduate students or others scientific research and technology to improve interested in learning about or applying for America's competitiveness. The bill provides graduate training. More than 70 graduate about $6.5 billion for NSF, which includes $850 programs are now listed on our web site at: million for NSF’s efforts to improve science and http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/?f=gradprograms mathematics education, mostly for elementary and

If you would like to have your graduate program secondary programs. The appropriations for NSF added to the listing (or would like to make are $124 million above the President’s request, changes to it), the following information from an and an increase of 10% percent $636 million from appropriate representative is requested: school FY 2007. The subcommittee also allotted $712 name; program name; department or college million for the National Institute of Standards and affiliation; web site URL to link to relevant Technology. The House Commerce, Justice and developmental or departmental program Science Subcommittee passed the 2008 spending information; and email address for an appropriate bill on June 11. The bill provides a total of $53.6 contact person. Programs concerned with graduate billion for the departments it covers. Under the training in developmental psychology, whether House bill, the NSF would receive a $72 million located in a department of psychology, or a increase. The full House Appropriations department or college of education, human committee will take up the bill later in July. development, pediatrics, or home economics, will be considered for inclusion if the above material is submitted. Please send the information to: FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES [email protected]. NIH: Studies to Identify Possible Juvenile ♦ Listing of online resources for developmental psychology (journal Protective Factors and Their Effects on Aging homepages, other organizations, grant seeking (R01) -RFA-AG-08-003 Letter Of Intent Receipt Date: October 22, 2007 information…) Application Receipt Date: November 19, 2007 ♦ On-line mechanism to submit Division 7

Awards Nominations - Nominate your The purpose of this funding opportunity issued by colleagues today! the NIA and NICHD is to stimulate research on ♦ Web-based email mechanism to send the concept of juvenile protective factors—

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namely that certain factors that are active during improve outcomes for persons affected by natural one or most post-natal maturational stages exert and man-made disasters. The full grant protective effects that inhibit the onset or opportunity is listed at: progression of specific adverse aging changes. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06- The diminution or disappearance of such 453.html. protective factors in early life, after a given maturational stage could contribute to the onset of NIH: Research on Emergency Medical age-related declines in a variety of functions and Services for Children (R01) increases in risk factors for age-related outcomes. PA-07-269 Examples of possible juvenile protective factors Application Submission Date: October 5 include specific stem or progenitor cell The NICHD, NIMH and a few other Institutes are populations, growth factors, regulators of cell soliciting grant applications to improve the quality proliferation and differentiation, and other factors and increase the quantity of EMSC research to be contributing to tissue maintenance, resistance to conducted in the United States. Each sponsoring stressors, and injury recovery. agency has further delineated specific This FOA will utilize the NIH Research issues/questions as illustrative of topics of Project Grant (R01) award mechanism. $2.2 research interest and will provide additional million in total costs (direct plus indirect) have information to prospective applicants upon been set aside to fund this initiative in FY2008. It request. is anticipated that 5-6 awards will be made. The NICHD is interested in a variety of Awards issued under this FOA are contingent research topics, including: (1) the evaluation of upon the availability of funds and the submission emergency medical services for pediatric patients of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. in terms of availability, effectiveness, and Because the nature and scope of the proposed language, cultural, and developmental research will vary from application to application, appropriateness; (2) the evaluation of risk factors it is anticipated that the size and duration of each and environmental influences on childhood award will also vary. The total amount awarded injuries that require emergency medical attention; and the number of awards will depend upon the (3) the investigation of biobehavioral factors mechanism numbers, quality, duration, and costs involved in risk-taking behaviors that result in of the applications received.” conditions requiring emergency medical services. Additionally, the NIMH is interested in research NIH: Behavioral and Social Research on related to: (1) the mental health consequences of Disasters and Health traumatic events and the development and testing PA-06-453 of interventions to assist victims and survivors; Application Submission Date: October 16 and (2) the spectrum of responses to trauma and the influence that different stressor parameters The purpose of this funding opportunity is to (e.g., setting, frequency, controllability, severity) stimulate research in the behavioral and social may have for treatment alternatives and sciences on the consequences of natural and man- preventive options. The full funding made disasters for the health of children, the announcement is available at: elderly, and vulnerable groups. The ultimate goal http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07- of the research should be to prevent or mitigate 269.html harmful consequences associated with disaster. NICHD is interested in research on children and NICHD: Secondary Data Analyses other vulnerable populations in disasters. The PA-07-183 long-term effects of disaster on development are Application Submission Date: October 5 especially of interest to the Institute. The National The NICHD is soliciting applications from those Institute for Nursing Research is also interested in interested in the analyses of data sets acquired research that will develop interventions to from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and

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Youth Development. This study, started by the • How Social Relations affect Cognition, NICHD and ten research universities in 1991, is Perception, and Emotional and Physical Health one of the most comprehensive studies of children (e.g., neuroimaging evidence of the effect of and the contexts of their development conducted social connectedness or isolation on the brain to date. The Study recruited 1,364 families soon during development), Neuroscientific Insights after their infants’ birth and has followed most of into Cognitive, Perceptual, Emotional, and Social them through 2004, to provide high-quality, well- Processes during Development (e.g., evidence that maintained data. This funding opportunity neural system recruited to do same chore changes encourages scientists to address research over development), Interrelations between questions about family, child care, school, and Physical Health and Mental Health (Cognitive and child development through analyses of existing Emotional) during Development (e.g., data sets from the study. In particular, the NICHD developmental psycho-neuro-immunology) would like to see the data sets used by • How Emotions Affect Brain Function (and psychologists, sociologists, economists, hence Cognition and Perception) and Physical statisticians, educators, policy makers, and Health during Development (e.g., evidence that physician scientists. The data sets from the one’s emotional state affects how brain processes NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth stimuli from earliest infancy) Development are available for qualified and Do not submit papers that teach us new fact(s) interested scientists. Procedures for obtaining the without potentially challenging how we think. data sets are specified on the study's Web site at Papers that describe a body or line of work are http://secc.rti.org. The Web site also provides encouraged. Email initial inquiries to Adele detailed information about the methods of the Diamond, Associate Editor, study. The full funding opportunity announcement [email protected]. Submission deadline is is available online at: September 30, 2007. In your cover letter indicate http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07- that your submission is intended for this special 183.html issue, possible reviewers, and how what you are reporting or discussing will change or challenge the thinking of developmental psychologists. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS Submit your paper through Developmental Psychology’s electronic portal:

http://www.jbo.com/jbo3/submissions/dsp_jbo.cf CALL FOR PAPERS m?journal_code=dev

Special Section on the Interplay of Biology and Environment Special Section on Three-Generation Research Developmental Psychology invites manuscripts on Parenting and Its Consequences for a special issue on the Interplay of Biology and Developmental Psychology invites manuscripts Environment broadly defined. Papers are sought for a special section on three-generation research that have the potential to change or challenge how on parenting and its consequences to be compiled developmental psychologists think by new by guest editors Rand Conger, Jay Belsky, and insights into any of the following: Deborah Capaldi working together with Associate • How Experience affects Mind, Brain, and Editor Richard Lerner. Gene Expression throughout Development (e.g., The goal of the special section is to highlight how early experience can change gene recent high quality, prospective, longitudinal expression), Genetic Mediation of Environmental research on intergenerational continuities and Effects on Mind and Body during Development discontinuities in parenting behavior and their (e.g., how similar experiences have different consequences for child and adolescent effects due to different genotypes of those going through the experiences)

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development. Topics might include, but are not and family characteristics (e.g., child's limited to, examination of the following: developmental level, culture, presence of • Mediating mechanisms that link quality of comorbid diagnostic conditions, acceptability of parenting in one generation to quality of parenting services) influence or moderate the treatment in the next, outcomes. The purpose of this special section is to • Social or personal events or conditions that highlight recent research on psychological either reduce or increase (i.e., moderate) the interventions with children and adolescents that degree of intergenerational continuity in the address patient, therapist, and other contextual quality of parenting behavior, variables that may influence, mediate, and/or • Factors that disrupt intergenerational moderate treatment outcome. continuity in abusive parenting, Papers must be submitted on or before the • The role of continuity in parenting as a nexus deadline of January 15th, 2008, to be eligible for similar developmental trajectories of children for inclusion in the special section; early or adolescents in one generation and their children submissions are encouraged. Papers that do not in the next generation, and meet the deadline will be considered as "regular" • Methodological issues related to the study of submissions to this journal. Anticipated date of intergenerational continuity in parenting and its publication for the special section is early 2009. consequences. Additional information can be found at: Especially welcomed are papers that report the http://www.apa.org/journals/ccp/papercall.html results of research on understudied populations such as ethnic minorities or rural as well as urban parents and children. The submission of recently completed doctoral dissertations is also encouraged. UPCOMING CONFERENCES The submission deadline is February 1, 2008.

Initial inquiries regarding the special section may August 29-31, 2007- British Psychological Society be sent to Rand Conger ([email protected]), Developmental Psychology Section Annual Jay Belsky ([email protected]), or Deborah Conference 2007- University of Plymouth, UK Capaldi ([email protected]). This year’s keynote speakers are: Jay Belsky, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, and Henry Markovits. The website is located at: http://www.bpsdevsec07.org/default.asp

Special Section on "Moving Beyond Efficacy: October 26-27, 2007- Cognitive Development Factors Influencing the Outcome of Evidence- Society's Fifth Biennial Meeting-Santa Fe, NM Based Psychological Interventions With This year’s plenary speakers include Rob Goldstone Children and Adolescents" and Patricia Kuhl; Invited symposia include: In Memory of Esther Thelen (Ron Barr, Jeff Elman, The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Rebecca Gomez & Bob Lickliter) and Children's Psychology (JCCP) invites submission of Learning (Alison Gopnik, David Klahr, Jenny Saffran empirical papers and scholarly reviews that focus & Robert Siegler). To learn more about the on research pertaining to variables that influence conference, visit: www.cogdevsoc.org the outcome of evidence-based psychological interventions with children and adolescents (and November 1-3, 2007 - Inaugural Conference of families). Although considerable attention has the International Mind Brain and Education been devoted to documenting the efficacy of Society - Forth Worth, TX various psychological interventions for children The general focus of the society is to align the political and adolescents, much less is known about the and educational issues that impact educational policy. These issues (or perspectives) are numerous, and the extent to which aspects of clinical expertise (e.g., following are highlighted at our inaugural conference: therapeutic alliance, therapist training) or child

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the impact of standards on practice, the role of March 27-29, 2008, International Conference cognitive science and neuroscience in education, the on Infant Studies Vancouver, Canada emergence of new relationships between biology and The goal of the conference is to promote the education, and how research can inform and influence internationalization of infancy research and the policy. For further information about the conference: exchange of ideas among infancy researchers. http://www.imbes.org Deadline for submission: September 30, 2007. Details of the program can be found at: http://www.isisweb.org/.

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(Addresses, telephone numbers, and Emails are listed on the Division 7 web site.) NEW NEWSLETTER EDITOR (starting next issue): Kali Trzesniewski, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Western Ontario E-mail: k.trz at uwo.ca