Chapter 1
Babies’ moral sense
Hamlin, J. K., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2010). “Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations.” Developmental Science 13(6), 1–7.
Parenting styles
Chang, L., Schwartz, D., Dodge, K. A., McBride-Chang, C. (2003). “Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression.” Journal of Family Psychology 17(4), 598–606.
Wang, M. T., & Kenny, S. (2014). “Longitudinal links between fathers’ and mothers’ harsh verbal discipline and adolescents’ conduct problems and depressive symptoms.” Child Development 85(3), 908–23.
Gershoff, E. T., et al. (2010). “Parent discipline practices in an international sample: associations with child behaviors and moderation by perceived normativeness.” Child Development 81(2), 487–502.
Spera, C. (2005). “A review of the relationship among parenting practices, parenting styles, and adolescent school achievement.” Educational Psychology Review 17(2), 125–46.
Denham, S. A. (2000). “Prediction of externalizing behavior problems from early to middle childhood: the role of parental socialization and emotion expression.” Developmental Psychopathology 12(1), 23–45.
Gottman, J. M., Fainsilber Katz, L., Hooven, C. (1996). “Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: theoretical models and preliminary data.” Journal of Family Psychology 10(3), 243–68.
Rewards lower intrinsic motivation
Deci, E. L., Koestner, R., Ryan, R. M. (1999). “A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation.” Psychological Bulletin 125(6), 627–68.
Rowe, M. B. (1974). “Relation of wait time and rewards to the development of language, logic, and fate control: Part II—rewards.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 11(4), 291–308.
Chapter 2
Effects of exercise on the brain
Best, J. R. (2010). “Effects of physical activity on children’s executive function: contributions of experimental research on aerobic exercise.” Developmental Review 30(4), 331–51.
Shevtsova, O., Tan, Y., Merkley, C. M., Winocur, G., Wojtowicz, J. M. (2017). “Early-age running enhances activity of adult-born dentate granule neurons following learning in rats.” eNeuro.
Oppezzo, M., Schwartz, D. L. (2014). “Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 40(4), 1142–52.
Nature and the brain
Van Den Berg, A. E., Custers, M. H. (2011). “Gardening promotes neuroendocrine and affective restoration from stress.” Journal of Health Psychology 16(1), 3–11.
Chapter 4
Sadeh, A., Gruber, R., Raviv, A. (2003). “The effects of sleep restriction and extension on school-age children: what a difference an hour makes.” Child Development 74(2), 444–55.
Palmer, C.A., Alfano, C.A. (2017). “Sleep and emotion regulation: An organizing, integrative review.” Sleep Medicine Reviews 31, 6–16.
Chapter 7
Parents’ technology distraction and its effects on kids
McDaniel, B. T., Radesky, J. S. (2018). “Technoference: parent distraction with technology and associations with child behavior problems.” Child Development 89(1), 100–9.
Radesky, et al. (2014). “Maternal mobile device use during a structured parent-child interaction task.” Academic Pediatrics 15(2), 238–44.
Video game effects
Bavelier, D., Green, C. S. (July 2016). “The brain-boosting power of video games.” Scientific American, 28–31.
AAP Policy Statement on Screen Time: Media and Young Minds, October 2016.
Schmidt, M. E., Pempek, T. A., Kirkorian, H. L., Lund, A. F., Anderson, D. R. (2008). “The effects of background television on the toy-play behavior of very young children.” Child Development 79(4), 1137–51.
Kirkorian, H. L., Pempek, T. A., Murphy, L. A., Schmidt, M. E., Anderson, D. R (2009). “The impact of background television on parent-child interaction.” Child Development 80(5), 1350–9.
Falbe, et al. (2015). “Sleep duration, restfulness, and screens in the sleep environment.” Pediatrics 135(2).
Garrison, M. M., Liekweg, K., Christakis, D. A. (2011). “Media use and child sleep: the impact of content, timing, and environment.” Pediatrics 128(1), 29–35.
Foley, et al. (2013). “Presleep activities and time of sleep onset in children.” Pediatrics 131(2), 276–82.
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