Become as Little Children

Suffer the little children...

Helping children become qualitative modelers

Early science education is essentially qualitative. Children must learn causal theories: what kinds of things happen, when they happen, and what their consequences are. Although modeling is a key skill in scientific reasoning, traditional modeling techniques do not express causal theories explicitly, and rely on higher mathematics (such as algebra) that children do not learn until later. We bel...

Bright children become enlightened adults.

We examined the prospective association between general intelligence (g) at age 10 and liberal and antitraditional social attitudes at age 30 in a large (N= 7,070), representative sample of the British population born in 1970. Statistical analyses identified a general latent trait underlying attitudes that are antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal, and trusting in the democratic polit...

Children—Not Simply “Little Adults”

Children and adolescents: victims who become perpetrators

Irrespective of whether one considers official statistics, the proliferation of clinical referrals, research initiatives, review articles or even media attention, the problem of children and adolescents who sexually abuse other children has become a subject of increased attention. Given the proportion of young abusers who are themselves victims of sexual abuse, understanding the continuities be...