Join us for the Spring 2017 Developmental Science Initiative colloquium.  Frederick J Morrison PhD, Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Michigan, will give a talk via “Zoom” titled Growth of Self-Regulation in the Transition to School

Summary: The development of self-regulation as an important, unique source of variance in early literacy development will be discussed. The presentation will focus on current conceptual and methodological ambiguities in the field, early emergence and long-term prediction of academic achievement and later life success and the role of environment in growth of self-regulation skills. Recent efforts to broaden the focus of inquiry to include neurobiological perspectives and intervention efforts will be included.

Everyone is welcome!

The Developmental Science Initiative (DSI) at UMass Amherst brings together researchers from Psychological and Brain Sciences’ multiple divisions, and colleagues from other UMass Amherst and Five Colleges departments and disciplines. We are striving to highlight and build a research and training program that approaches human development by integrating research across multiple domains (e.g., biological, physical, healthy, cognitive, affective, social) and levels of analysis (e.g., neurological, behavioral, relational) to examine the influence of their interactions across the lifespan. Faculty use diverse methods to study a wide array of developmental outcomes that make a difference in the daily lives of developing person and their families and communities. If you would like to learn more about DSI contact Professor Kirby Deater-Deckard,