Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "child development"

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    • Association of Behavioral Inhibition with Hair Pigmentation in a European Sample 

      Moehler, Eva; Kagan, Jerome; Brunner, Romuald; Wiebel, Angelika; Kaufmann, Claudia; Resch, Franz (Elsevier Science, 2006)
      Behavioral inhibition, a temperamental trait signalling a predisposition to childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders, is slightly more frequent in America among Caucasian children having blue irises. This paper examines ...

    • Children’s Use of Geometry for Reorientation 

      Lee, Sang Ah; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Wiley, 2008)
      Research on navigation has shown that humans and laboratory animals recover their sense of orientation primarily by detecting geometric properties of large-scale surface layouts (e.g. room shape), but the reasons for the ...

    • Deworming and Development: Asking the Right Questions, Asking the Questions Right 

      Bundy, Donald A. P.; Kremer, Michael R.; Bleakley, Hoyt; Jukes, Matthew; Miguel, Edward (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Two billion people are infected with intestinal worms. In many areas, the majority of schoolchildren are infected, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for school-based mass deworming. The key area for debate ...