Cornell Institute for Research on Children

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Papierno, P.B., Ceci, S.J., Makel, M.C., & Williams, W.M. (in press). The ontogeny of exceptional abilities: A bioecological perspective. To appear in Journal for the Education of the Gifted.

Emery, R., Otto, R., & O'Donohue, W. (2005). The validity of child custody fitness evaluations: psychological, legal, and policy implications. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 6(1), 1-29.

Papierno, P.B. & Ceci, S.J. (2005). Promoting equity or inducing disparity: The costs and benefits of widening achievement gaps through universalized interventions. Georgetown Public Policy Review 10(2), 1-15.

Ceci, S.J. & Papierno, P.B. (2005). The rhetoric and reality of gap closing: When the "have-nots" gain but the "haves" gain even more. American Psychologist, 60, 149-160.

Williams, W.M., Papierno, P.B., Makel, M.C., & Ceci, S.J. (2004). Thinking like a scientist about real-world problems: The Cornell Institute for Research on Children science education program. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 25(1), 107-126.

Williams, W.M., Papierno, P.B., & Makel, M.C. & Ceci, S.J. (2004). Teaching children real-world thinking and reasoning. In Fischer, C.B. & Lerner, R.M. (Eds.) Applied developmental science: An encyclopedia of research, policies, and programs (pp. 1092-1095). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Ceci, S.J. & Williams, W.M. (2003). The Cornell Institute for Research on Children: A vision of integrated developmental science. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24(6), 681-696.

Ceci, S.J., Paperino, P.B., & Mueller-Johnson, K.U. (2002). The twisted relationship between school spending and academic outputs: In search of a new metaphor. Journal of School Psychology, 40, 477-484.