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Abuse, Neglect, and Maltreatment of Infants
Diane Benoit and Jennifer Coolbear, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Alison Crawford, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
ADHD: Genetic Influences
Ian Gizer, Irwin Waldman, and Kelly Harrington, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Adoption and Foster Placement
Mary Dozier and Kristin L. Bernard, University of Delaware, USA
AIDS and HIV
Alexandra Boeving and Brian Forsyth, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Allergies
Wesley Burks, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Kricia Palmer
Amnesia, Infantile
Patricia Bauer, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Anger and Aggression
Richard Tremblay, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Artistic Development
Claire Golomb
Asthma
Rich Hendershot
Attachment
Germán Posada, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Attention
John Richards, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA;
Mary L. Courage, Memorial University, Canada
Auditory Development and Hearing Disorders
Dan Ashmead, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Auditory Perception
Dan Ashmead, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Geraldine Dawson and Lindsey Sterling, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Elizabeth M. Lennon, Judith M. Gardner, Bernard Z. Karmel, and Michael J. Flory, New York State Institute for Research in Developmental Disabilities, NY, USA
Bedwetting
S.E. Lerman and Arnold I. Chin, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Behavior Genetics
Hill Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Bilingualism
Núria Sebastian Gallés, Laura Bosch, and Ferran Pons, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Birth Complications and Outcomes
Danielle Smith
Birth Defects
Max Muenke, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
David Adams
Birth Order
Delroy L. Paulhus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Brain Development
Bradley Schlaggar and Damien Fair, University of Washington, St. Louis, MO, USA
Brain Function
Michelle de Haan and Marina Martinos, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Breastfeeding
Ruth A. Lawrence, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA

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Categorization Skills and Concepts
Lisa M. Oakes, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Cerebral Palsy
Alec Hoon, Michael V. Johnston, and Michelle Campbell, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Child and Day Care, Effects of
Alison Clarke-Stewart and Jennifer Miner, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Circumcision
Anna Taddio, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Cognitive Development
Kurt Fischer and Claire D. Vallotton, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA
Cognitive Developmental Theories
Graeme S. Halford, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Cognitive Neuroscience
Mark Johnson, University of London, UK
Colic
David Fleisher
Critical Periods
Don Bailey and Jean-Louis Gariepy, Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Crying
Barry Lester and Linda LaGasse, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI, USA

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Demographic Factors
Lynne Casper and Paul Kitchen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dentition and Dental Care
Stephane Schwartz, Jon Kapala, and Jean-Marc Retrouvey, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Depression
Joan Luby, Andy Gelden and Melissa Meade-Stalets, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Developmental Disabilities—Cognitive
Ronald David and Susan Pillsbury, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Developmental Disabilities—Physical
Michael Msall and Ronald R. Espinal, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Diarrhea
Jeffrey A. Rudolph, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
Discipline and Compliance
Joan Grusec, Alisa Almas, and Karen Willoughby, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Divorce
Judith Wallerstein
Down Syndrome
Deborah J. Fidler, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA

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Emotion Regulation
Ross Thompson, Sara Meyer, and Rachel Jochem, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Empathy and Prosocial Behavior
JoAnn Robinson, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Endocrine System
Sarah Watamura, University of Denver, CO, USA
Exploration and Curiosity
Harvey Switzky, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
Abigail Baxter, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA

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Face Processing
Olivier Pascalis and David Kelly, The University of Sheffield, UK
Failure to Thrive
David Fleisher
Family Influences
Barbara H. Fiese and Marcia Winter, Syracuse University, NY, USA
Family Support, International Trends
Nitika Tolani and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Fear and Wariness
Jerome Kagan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Feeding Development and Disorders
Irene Chatoor and Miguel Macaoay, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Heather Carmichael Olson, Tracy Jirikowic, and Stephanie King, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Fragile X Syndrome
Michele Ono, Faraz Farzin, and Randi J. Hagerman, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Friends and Peers
Carollee Howes
Future Orientation
Naomi Wentworth, Lake Forest College, IL, USA

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Gender: Awareness, Identity, and Stereotyping
Kristina Zosuls, Leah E. Lurye, and Diana Ruble, New York University, NY, USA
Genetic Disorders: Sex Linked
Laura Baker and Joshua Isen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Genetic Disorders: Single Gene
E.L. Grigorenko, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Genetics and Inheritance
Chandra Reynolds, Archana Balasubramanian, and Jennifer Koontz, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Grammar
Danielle Matthews, The University of Manchester, UK
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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Habituation and Novelty
Kelly Al Snyder and Carrah Torrence, University of Denver, CO, USA
Head Start
John Hagen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Faith Lamb-Parker, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Healthcare
Neal Halfon, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Michael Regalado and Shirley Russ, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hippocampus
Lynn Nadel and Almut Hupbach, University of Arizona, USA
Humor
Doris Bergen, Miami University, USA

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Illnesses: Autoimmune Rheumatological Diseases
Jennifer Soep and J. Roger Hollister, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Imagination and Fantasy
Jacqueline Woolley and Ansley Tullos, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Imitation and Modeling
Andrew N. Meltzoff and Rebecca A. Williamson, Institute for Learning and Brain Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Immune System and Immunodeficiency
Angela Ahuja, National Jewish Hospital
Independence/Dependence
Sarah Mangelsdorf and Maria Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Intellectual Disabilities
Deborah J. Fidler, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
Intermodal Perception
Lorraine E. Bahrick, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
George Hollich, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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Language Acquisition Theories
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Language Development
E. Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Liepzig, Germany
Lead Poisoning
Richard L. Canfield, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Todd A. Jusko, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Learning
Rebecca L. Gómez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Learning Disabilities
Emily Simonoff and Holan Liang, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Literacy
Carol Connor and Stephanie Al Otaiba, Florida State University, Miami, FL, USA

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Marital Relationship
Martha J. Cox, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
David E. Szwedo, University of Virginia, USA
Caroline W. Oppenheimer, Abigail Pressel, Nicole Heilbron, and W. Roger Mills-Koonce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Maternal Age and Pregnancy
Ruth Cecilia Fretts, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Wellesley, MA, USA
Linda J. Heffner, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Chloe Zera, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Maternal and Paternal Employment, Effects of
Wendy Goldberg and Rachel Lucas-Thompson, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Mathematical Reasoning
Karen Wynn and Koleen McCrink, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Memory
Harlene Hayne, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Jenny Richmond, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Mental Health, Infant
Charles H. Zeanah Jr. and Paula D. Zeanah, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Mary Margaret Gleason, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
Mental Health, Intervention and Prevention
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Lorraine McKelvey, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR, USA
Milestones: Cognitive
Marvin W. Daehler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Milestones: Physical
Warren O. Eaton, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mortality, Infant
Robert T. Brouillette, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Kathryn Andrews
Daniel B. Brouillette, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Motor and Physical Development: Locomotion
Karen Adolph, New York University, NY, USA
Motor and Physical Development: Manual
Claes von Hofsten, Uppsala University, Sweden
Music Perception
Sandra E. Trehub, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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Nature vs. Nurture
Brian D’Onofrio, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Neonativism
Amy Needham and Klaus Libertus, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Neurological Development
Margaret Moulson and Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Neuropsychological Assessment
Julie Hofheiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Barry Lester, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Newborn Behavior
Eugene C. Goldfield, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Nutrition and Diet
Maureen Black, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Betsy Lozoff, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Obesity
Stephen R. Daniels, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
Christopher Bolling, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Object Concept
Scott P. Johnson and Kasey C. Soska, New York University, New York, NY, USA

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Parental Chronic Mental Illnesses
Teresa Ostler and Barry Ackerson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Parental Leave
Janet Hyde and Jennifer Peterson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Parenting Styles and their Effects
Marc H. Bornstein and Deborah Zlotnik, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes for Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Perception and Action
Bennett Bertenthal, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Perceptual Development
Martha Arterberry, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA
Physical Growth
Michelle Lampl, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental Theory
James P. Byrnes, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Play
Marc H. Bornstein and Maria Sumaroka, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes for Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Postpartum Depression, Effects on Infant
Douglas M. Teti and Nissa Towe-Goodman, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Pragmatic Development
Nameera Akhtar and Katherine Herold, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Premature Babies
Klaus Minde, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Phyllis Zelkowitz, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Prenatal Care
Michael C. Lu and Jessica S. Lu, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prenatal Development
Janet DiPietro, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Preschool and Nursery School
Helen Raikes, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
Preverbal Development and Speech Perception
Robin Panneton, Megan McIlvery, and Naureen Bhullar, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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Reasoning in Early Development
Ellin Scholnick, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Reflexes
Fleming S. Pedroso
Risk and Resilience
Leslie Morrison Gutman, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, London, UK
Routines
Barbara H. Fiese, Syracuse University, NY, USA

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Safety and Childproofing
David Schwebel, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
School Readiness
Frederick J. Morrison and Annemarie Hindman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Screening, Newborn and Maternal Well-being
Heidelise Als and Samantha Butler, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Screening, Prenatal
Timothy R.B. Johnston, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Tiffanee Lenzi
Self Knowledge
Ann Bigelow, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Self-Regulatory Processes
Claire Kopp
Semantic Development
Jui Bhagwat and Marianella Casasola, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Sensory Processing Disorder
Lucy Jane Miller, The KID Foundation, Greenwood Village, CO, USA
Roseann C. Schaaf, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Separation and Stranger Anxiety
Anat Scher and Judith Harel, University of Haifa, Israel
Shyness
Jens B. Asendorpf, Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Siblings and Sibling Rivalry
Nina Howe and Holly Recchia, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
SIDS
Thomas G. Keens, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, CA, USA
Deborah R. Gemmill, California Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Advisory Council, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sleep
Avi Sadeh, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Smiling
Daniel Messinger, Flipse Psychology Annex, Miami, FL, USA
Social and Emotional Development Theories
Alice Carter, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
Social Interaction
Edward Tronick, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
Social-Emotional Development Assessment
Roseanne Clark, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Leandra Godoy and Alice Carter, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
Socialization in Infancy and Childhood
Ross Parke, Thomas J. Schofield, Kristie L. Morris, Marie A. Miller, and Melinda S. Leidy
Special Education
James Gallagher, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Speech Perception
Gerald W. McRoberts, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA
Stereotypies
John T. Rapp, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA
Jon Pinkston and Stephen Fowler, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Stress and Coping
E. Mark Cummings and Chrysteyna Kouros, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
Suckling
Elliott Blass, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Symbolic Thought
Phil Zelazo
Stephanie Carlson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Taste and Smell
Richard L. Doty and Muhammed Shah, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Television: Uses and Effects
John P. Murray and Ann D. Murray, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Temperament
Mary Rothbart, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
Maria A. Gartstein, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Teratology
Ronald Seifer, Brown University, E.P. Bradley Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
Theory of Mind
Janet Astington and Lisa Ain Dack, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Toilet Training
Bruce Taubman
Nathan Blum, Children’s Seashore House of Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Touch and Pain
Tiffany Field
Twins
Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Paula Y. Mullineaux, and Kit K. Elam, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA

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Vision Disorders and Visual Impairment
Janette Atkinson, University College London, London, UK
Oliver Braddick, University of Oxford, UK
Visual Perception
Richard N. Aslin and Andrea L. Lathrop, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
Mary Gauvain, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

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