There is vigorous debate regarding the possibility that ADHD is overdiagnosed in boys. We investigated the impact of the gender stereotype depicting boys as inattentive and impulsive on neuropsychological assessment (observation of psychology students and child's cognitive performance). In experiment 1, after the stereotype was activated, psychology students rated a "boy," a "girl," or a "child...

Positive psychology is influencing educational policy and practice in Britain and North America. This article reveals how this psychological discourse and its offshoot school-based training programs, which stress happiness, self-improvement and well-being, align with an emergent socioeconomic formation: cognitive capitalism. Three key points are made. First, there is an elective affinity betwee...

Ben Hayes, Academic and Professional Tutor, Educational Psychology Group, University College London and Kent Educational Psychology Service; Leanna Lopez, Educational Psychologist, Tower Hamlets Psychology Service, London; Abigail Price, Consultant Paediatrician, Children’s Diabetes Team, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust. Personal resilience was studied in relation to perceived s...

"The present study is a theoretical and methodological proposal rooted in the field of social developmental psychology describes three objectives. First, it aims to show how transgressive situations are conducive norms governing interactions. Second, similarities differences between two emotions, namely shame embarrassment, outlined order better understand their respective measures can highligh...

how to cite this article: pishyareh e, tehrani-doost m, mahmoodi-gharaie j, khorrami a, rahmdar sr. a comparative study of sustained attentional bias on emotional processing in adhd children to pictures with eye-tracking. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):64-70. abstract objective adhd children have anomalous and negative behavior especially in emotionally related fields when compared to ot...

The MacArthur Story Stem Battery is a systematic collection of story beginnings that are referred to as 'stems.' These stems are designed to elicit information from children about their representational worlds. This method is particularly exciting because using it allows developmental psychologists and others to gain information directly from children about their emotional states and what they ...

how to cite this article: ghaffari j, abbaskhanian a, jalili m, yazdani charati y. iq score of children with persistent or perennial allergic rhinitis: comparison with healthy children. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer; 8(3): 44-48.   abstract objective prevalence of allergies is different around the world. allergic rhinitis is a common chronic disease in children. intelligence quotient (iq) is...

Research in political psychology largely ignores early childhood. This is likely due to the assumption that young children lack cognitive capacity and social understanding needed for thought. Challenging this assumption, we argue research with both possible important psychologists. We focus on topic of ideology demonstrate our argument. review recent evidence revealing cognition childhood—and e...