A5002558617- Philosophy and History of Science
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- History of Science and Medicine
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Evolution and Science Education
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Science and Climate Studies
- Medical History and Research
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- History of Science and Natural History
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
University of Toronto
2010-2024
Institute for Work & Health
2020
University of Victoria
2017-2018
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques
2018
Servicio Gallego de Salud
2007
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago
2006
Harvard University
2002-2004
Arizona State University
1992-1995
Universidad de Salamanca
1992
Universitat de València
1990-1991
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these foster “positive practices” improve children’s chances fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard good care. But attachment-based is typical primarily people living Western lifestyles runs counter different ways many...
In the early twentieth century, when physicians and scientists in U.S. Britain debated what children needed to develop into healthy citizens, they spoke largely terms of nutrition environmental factors.But as infant child mortality declined, concerns over children's emotional psychological needs gradually assumed center stage.In response horrific violence World War II, numerous researchers social sciences turned their attention role emotions fomenting political instability.Above all, focused...
This article examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber et al. (2017) and argues that there are scientific ethical problems with such efforts in applied developmental science. Scientifically, these programs rely on data from a small narrow sample of world's population; assume existence fixed pathways; pit knowledge against indigenous knowledge. The authors question critical role talk as solely providing rich cognitive stimulation important to school success, primary...
Abstract This paper examines the development of British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby's views their scientific social reception in United States during 1950s. In a 1951 report for World Health Organization Bowlby contended that mother is child's psychic organizer, as observational studies children worldwide showed absence love had disastrous consequences children's emotional health. By end decade moved from hospitals to animal research order support his thesis biological need. I...
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians recently shown how play number roles that can illuminate different aspects science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays this Focus section aim expand our vision textbooks further by showing perform various hybrid functions development.
Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood context of social concern about mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued that many psychopathologies were caused by a disruption bond. Lorenz extended his work on imprinting humans maternal care was also instinctual. The conjunction psychoanalysis ethology helped shore up view mother-child rests an instinctual basis is cradle...
This paper examines the reception of John Bowlby's and Mary Ainsworth's ethological theory attachment among anthropologists cultural psychologists. First, it shows that from Margaret Mead's criticisms in mid 1950s to present, many them have challenged main tenets but theorists ignored those challenges. Second, argues we need understand different disciplinary goals psychology anthropology after WWII order illuminate lack attention children's context research. The privileging within laboratory...
Harlow deserves a place in the early history of evolutionary psychiatry but not, as he is commonly presented, because his belief instinctual nature mother-infant dyad. Harlow’s work on significance peer relationships led him to appreciate separate affectional systems. Over time, distanced himself from ideas John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth well Konrad Lorenz’s views about imprinting instincts. did not lend support Bowlby’s an innate need for mother love thesis that was child’s psychic...
OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 17 January 2024Sec. Autism Volume 15 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1266486
Starting in 1958, Harry Harlow published numerous research papers analyzing the emotional and social development of rhesus monkeys. This essay examines presentation Harlow's work introductory psychology textbooks from 1958 to 1975, focusing on whether erased process research, presented results without hedging, provided a uniform account results. It argues that many were not passive vehicles knowledge transmission; instead, they played role similar articles meta-analysis literature reviews.
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 03 August 2023Sec. Psychopathology Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1188053