In the first edition of this journal, we published a paper reporting that fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were over-represented in the field of engineering. This result was interpreted as providing supporting evidence for the folk-psychology/folk-physics theory of autism. After carrying out further analyses on the same data, Jarrold and Routh found that fathers of children with...

Jody S. Nicholson, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame; Kimberley S. Howard, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University; John G. Borkowski, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame. The first author was supported by Grant Number T32 HD07184-27 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The second author was s...

Production of change-of-state, change-of-location and alternating verbs: A comparison of children with specific language impairment and typically developing children Susan H. Ebbels a b , Julie E. Dockrell c & Heather K. J. van der Lely d e f a Moor House School, Mill Lane, Hurst Green, Oxted, RH8 9AQ, UK b Divison of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, ...

Early social and emotional development is foundational for children’s health, education, well-being, later adjustment in society. It also a cornerstone of positive psychology—the exploration human flourishing at an individual, community, societal level. Habitual explanatory styles (e.g., mindsets optimistic thinking) have impact on well-being are often acquired during early childhood. These may...

according to the mother's key roles in bringing up emotional and cognitive abilities of mentally retarded children and respect to positive psychology in recent decades, this research is administered to assess the relation between mother's happiness level with cognitive- executive functions (i.e. attention, working memory, inhibition and planning) and facial emotional recognition ability as two ...

Luria's empirical study in Uzbekistan and Kirgistan belongs to the core of Russian School Socio-Historical Psychology. The goal this article is examine that research again disclose their true fundamentals. All tests Luria had used Central Asia come from developmental psychology. However, neither nor his followers fully understood foundations consequences research, something makes very clear. ex...