developmental psychology

80% of adults are overly optimistic about life—where does that cognitive bias come from?

Narcissists aren’t born – they’re made, says development psychologist Alison Gopnik. She takes issue with the popular notion that children need to unlearn brashness and learn civility, when neuroscience shows that it tends to work in the reverse.

Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has done more than just ‘think of the children’, she wrote a book – and it rules favorably for free play and the end of scholastic parenting.

The word parenting, as a verb, has only been around since 1958. Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik examines when caregiving became the art of hovering, and the pitfalls and anxiety of trying to shape children instead of raise them.