Research Citations

Science provides the roadmap

Moore, D. S. (2002). The dependent gene: The fallacy of nature vs. nurture. New York: W. H. Freeman.

Moore, D. S. (2015). The developing genome: An introduction to behavioral epigenetics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moore, D. S. (2016). Behavioral epigenetics. WIREs Cognitive Science 2016. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1333.

Moore, D. S., & Shenk, D. (2016). The heritability fallacy. WIREs Cognitive Science 2016. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1400.

Noble, D. (2015). Evolution beyond neo-Darwinism: A new conceptual framework. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 218, 7-13.

Slavich, G. M., & Cole, S. W. (2013). The emerging field of human social genomics. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 331-348.

Woese, C. R. (2004). A new biology for a new century. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 68(2), 173-186.

Unlocking human potential

Benson, P. L. (2008). Sparks: How parents can help ignite the hidden strengths of teenagers. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Damon, W. (2008). The path to purpose: Helping our children find their calling in life. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Lerner, R. M. (2007). The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years. New York, NY: The Crown Publishing Group.

Rhodes, J. E. (2020). Older and wiser: New ideas for youth mentoring in the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Variation is the norm

Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man (revised/expanded ed.). New York: Norton.

Mascolo, M. F. & Bidell, T. R. (Eds.), (2020). Handbook of integrative developmental psychology: Festschrift for Kurt W. Fischer. Routledge.

Molenaar, P. C. M. (2004). A manifesto on psychology as idiographic science: Bringing the person back into scientific psychology, this time forever. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research & Perspective, 2(4), 201–218.

Nesselroade, J. R., & Molenaar, P. C. M. (2010). Emphasizing intraindividual variability in the study of development over the life span. In W. F. Overton (Ed.), Handbook of life-span development. Vol. 1: Cognition, biology, methods (pp. 30-54). Editor-in-chief: R. M. Lerner. Hoboken: Wiley.

Ram, N., Conroy, D. E., Pincus, A. L., Lorek, A., Rebar, A., & Roche, M. J., Coccia, M., Morack, J., Feldman, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2014). Examining the interplay of processes across multiple time-scales: Illustration with the intraindividual study of affect, health, and interpersonal behavior (iSAHIB). Research in Human Development, 11(2), 142-160.

Trauma is not destiny

Masten, A. S. (2001). Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development. American Psychologist, 56, 227–238.

Masten, A. S. (2014). Ordinary magic: Resilience in development. New York: Guilford Press.

Masten, A. S., Narayan, A. J., Silverman, W. K., & Osofsky, J. D. (2015). Children in war and disaster. In M. H. Bornstein and T. Leventhal (Eds.), Ecological settings and processes. Volume 4 of the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (7th ed., pp. 704-745). Editor-in-chief: R. M. Lerner. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Slavich, G. M. (2020). Social safety theory: a biologically based evolutionary perspective on life stress, health, and behavior. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 16, 256-295.