Multimedia Resources

The Death Penalty in Delaware

John Blume discusses what has been learned from empirical studies of Delaware’s death penalty and how these insights might apply to other regions. [Video & slides]

How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?

Charles Brainerd discusses research on how emotional content distorts memory and why this is important to the legal system.[Video & slides]

Law, Psychology, and Human Development

Charles Brainerd highlights the pervasive use of memory reports as legal evidence in our courts, common assumptions juries make about eye-witness reports, and research findings showing many of these assumptions to be false or seriously limited. [Video, slides & article]

The Science of False Memory

Charles Brainerd discusses the psychology of false memories and evidence that calls into question traditional theory regarding memory in this book talk at the Mann Library. [Video] [Audio]

Ethnic and Class Disparities in School Readiness: Closing the Gap

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn discusses the effects of income, health conditions, parenting, and preschool on racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness and summarizes evidence supporting intervention strategies most likely to reduce the gaps. [Video, slides & article]

From Theory to Practice and Back: Finding New Ways to Integrate Research and Practice

Jennifer Brown, Ph.D candidate in Human Development at Cornell, discusses logic modeling, linking research to program theory and evaluation, and the Netway - a new Internet-based database tool for monitoring and tracking program activities to create evaluation plans. [Video & slides]

Five Factors that Can Damage Children’s Memory

Stephen Ceci discusses memory and how children’s memory can be corrupted in this engaging guest lecture for Introductory Psychology that includes two audience participation experiments. [Video & slides]

To Intervene or Not to Intervene

Stephen Ceci addresses the question of whether we should universalize interventions to help disadvantaged children. Interventions targeted to disadvantaged children could, if opened to all students, elevate top students even higher and widen the achievement gap. [Video, slides & article]

Parent-child Play Groups as a Family Support Strategy

Moncrieff Cochran describes findings from his research to evaluate the effects of participation in play groups on parenting and child behavior. [Video & slides]

Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations

Phoebe Ellsworth, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Michigan, discusses confirmation bias as a source of false convictions in this colloquium sponsored by the Department of Human Development and others. [Video & slides]

Intelligence: Four Paradoxes Resolved

James Flynn is Emeritus Professor of Political Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is known for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the documentation of massive IQ test score gains over the past century. He explores what intelligence really is and the reasons behind these gains in this talk co-sponsored by the Department of Human Development and the Law School. [Video]

Research-based Outreach: Albert Bandura’s Model

Stephen Hamilton discusses a comprehensive approach to outreach which goes beyond research-based program content to encompass program evaluation as well as initial problem identification and incidence. [Video, slides & article]

Explanations for Everything: The Value of Cognitive Analyses of Judgments and Decisions

Reid Hastie illustrates how we develop mental representations or stories to explain our experience and how these mental representations can be used to explain, predict and control decisions. [Video & slides]

Child Language Acquisition and Growth

Barbara Lust discusses her research on language development in young children, exploring such questions as when and how do children acquire language and what are the effects of acquiring more than one language at once. [Video & slides]

Child Language: Acquisition and Growth Book Talk

Barbara Lust discusses recent discoveries about child language acquisition in this book talk at the Mann Library. Her research explores the nature of language development and seeks to identify the universals which characterize child language acquisition across all languages. [Video] [Audio]

The Positive Side of Aging: Changes in Emotion-Cognition Interactions across the Life Span

Joseph Mikels discusses age-related changes in cognitive function and emotional regulation, findings related to emotion-cognition interactions, and implications for how the decision quality of older adults could be improved. [Video & article]

What Every Parent Should Know to Survive the College Years

Christine Schelhas-Miller discusses the changing relationship between parents and their children in college. This sage parenting advice is based on information from extensive focus groups, surveys, and counseling sessions with college students and their parents. [Video]

Positive Emotions as a Basic Building Block of Resilience in Later Life

Anthony Ong describes his research on the powerful effects of positive emotion to build psychological resources, moderate reactivity to stress, and hasten recovery from negative events. [Video & slides]

Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy

Valerie Reyna discusses teen risk taking, developmental differences in judgment and decision making, and the implications of her research for programs and policies to prevent or change risky behaviors. [Video, slides & article]

The Development of Developmental Science: An Exercise in Dialectics

Arnold Sameroff provides an engaging overview of the history of Developmental Science and the nature-nurture debate. Drawing on examples from his research, he outlines a unifying view focusing on the transactional relations between child characteristics, parent childrearing, and the broader environment. [Video]

CITRA: Evaluating Five Years of Community-Partnered Research

Elaine Wethington summarizes the lessons learned from CITRA’s innovative efforts to fund and evaluate community-based research that benefits older adults. [Video & slides]

Turning High-Risk Kids on to Science

Wendy Williams highlights the problem of low participation of minority, female, and low-income youth in science careers and describes her innovative curriculum, Thinking Like a Scientist, designed to encourage greater representation. Presented at the CYFAR 2007 conference. [Video & slides]