Legendary Researchers From World Renown Institutions
We've assembled the world's greatest childhood researchers from the world's best institutions and made their research easy to understand and widely available for FREE.
Legendary Researchers..
Dr. Adele Diamond
Ph.D. Harvard, Cognitive Neuroscience
Adele Diamond pioneered the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, specifically executive functions, first at Harvard, then Yale and now UBC.
Dr. John Medina
Ph.D Molecular Biology, NYT Bestseller
Dr. John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in human brain development and a New York Times best-selling author.
Dr. Michael Posner
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
For more than fifty years Michael Posner has studied attention and neural networks. His many honors include being awarded the Medal of Science and the Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
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Dr. John Gottman
Ph.D. MIT, Professor Emeritus and Co-founder of the Gottman Institute
John Gottman is a multi-award winning distinguished researcher who has conducted 40 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples
Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman
Co-founder and President of The Gottman Institute
Julie is the author/co-author of five books, Washington State Psychologist of the Year and co-creator of the immensely popular The Art and Science of Love workshops.
Dr. Karen Bierman
Stanford, Social & Emotional Development
Karen Bierman's 30+ year research career on social-emotional development has led her to be an educational advisor to many early childhood programs including Sesame Street
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Dr. Ross A. Thompson
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Ross A. Thompson is an internationally-recognized authority on the psychological development of young children and parent-child relationships. Recently he was President of the Board of Directors of Zero to Three.
Dr. Kristin Neff
Ph.D. Berkeley. Self-Compassion Research Pioneer.
Dr. Kristin Neff introduced the construct of self-compassion, including creating a scale to measure it. The field now has over 2,000 peer reviewed journal articles, dissertations and books.
Dr. J. Kiley Hamlin
Ph.D. Yale Developmental Psychology
Dr. J. Kiley Hamlin has won multiple honors for her ground-breaking work in the earliest developmental origins of the human moral sense in preverbal infants
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Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
World renowned expert in SEL
Dr. Schonert-Reichl is a world renowned expert in social and emotional learning (SEL) research, specifically on what fosters empathy, compassion, altruism, and resiliency in children and adolescents
Dr. Victoria Talwar
Canada Research Chair Professor
Dr. Victoria Talwar is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on children’s verbal deception, moral development, theory-of-mind understanding and behavior.
Dr. Peter Gray, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Boston College
Dr. Peter Gray is the world's foremost researcher on play. He has conducted and published research in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and education.
Rick Hanson
Senior Fellow, Berkeley Greater Good Science Center
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 29 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture.
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Diana Baumrind coined and defined "Authoritative Parenting," to describe the parenting style that has been replicated around the world, cross-culturally in over 400 studies as the style that results in a child's "optimal outcome." Dr. Baumrind passed away at age 91 at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, on September 13, 2018.
Prior to her passing, Dr. Baumrind handpicked a team to codify her research and MindEDU has partnered with this amazing team to help bring her material to the widest audience possible.
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Dr. Robert Larzelere, Ph.D.
Family-type Relationships
Bob Larzelere research focuses primarily on improving the quality of parenting research to clarify how authoritative parents use firm control to enhance the positive aspects and outcomes of that parenting style.
Dr. Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe, Ph.D.
Family Functioning
Prof. Gunnoe studies parenting and youth development in various family contexts. Areas of research include international adoption, religiosity, ethnicity, and divorce and remarriage.
Dr. Jelani Mandara, Ph.D.
Human Development
Jelani Mandara, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. His primary research examines the nature and effects of socialization, father involvement…
Dr. Tao Wang, EdD
Human Development
Tao, has a Masters in Human Development and Psychology and an EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In China he has educated over 100,000 parents in 91 cities and “Discipline and Love” has sold over 100,000 copies.
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