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Eisenberg, Nancy – Developmental Psychology, 2020
In this commentary, I delineate several questions raised by the Hammond and Drummond (2019) paper: (a) to why there seems to be an association between state positive emotion and prosocial behavior in young children, and if and how early positively tinged prosocial behavior provides a pathway to (b) later prosocial behavior more generally…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Young Children
Molenaar, Peter C. M. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
In this article, Peter Molenaar responds to three commentaries (this issue) on his article, "An Interpretation of Part of Gilbert Gottlieb's Legacy: Developmental Systems Theory Contra Developmental Behavior Genetics." He addresses aspects of relational developmental systems (RDS) mentioned and questions raised in each of the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Genetics, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories
von Eye, Alexander – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
The concepts and paradigms "development", "evolution", and "developmental behavior genetics" target, in their statements, populations. The laws of genetics and evolution are supposed to apply to every single case in a population. It can be counted among the major contributions of Gottlieb (1992, 1995) to have pointed…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Individual Development, Scientific Research, Genetics
Bergman, Lars R. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
Molenaar's (2015) article concerns Developmental Systems Theory (DST) in relation to behavior genetics and he presents implications of DST for empirical research, especially the need for subject-specific studies. In this commentary, the article is discussed from a broader developmental science perspective, particularly regarded through the lens of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Genetics, Behavior Theories, Behavior Development
Molenaar, Peter C. M. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
The main theme of this paper concerns the persistent critique of Gilbert Gottlieb on developmental behavior genetics and my reactions to this critique, the latter changing from rejection to complete acceptation. Concise characterizations of developmental behavior genetics, developmental systems theory (to which Gottlieb made essential…
Descriptors: Genetics, Individual Differences, Criticism, Scientific Research
Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2008
A case study of one child, Alicia, is used to explore how children's identities as readers are constructed across time as they move thorough school. Attention to time helps us attend to how students draw on ongoing, familial, and historical resources in ways that are both recursive and future-oriented as they construct themselves as readers across…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies

Fletcher, Ronald – Intelligence, 1991
The futility of the debate between heredity and environment as determinants of intelligence is argued, with convictions inspired by C. Burt's work (apart from the question of fraud in his work). It is contended that the influence of this misconceived ideological disagreement is apparent in today's educational systems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Educational Policy, Educational Research