CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

Saturday, March 28, 2009

After, or before AND after? A cautionary tale

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An article by Bendict Carey in the New York Times' "Science Times" section, Feb. 24, 2009, was entitled "After abuse, cha...

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Something to read-- critically

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An article that appeared in Monitor on Psychology, Feb. 2009-- "Programmed for life?", by Michael Price-- offers food for critical...

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Presentation schedule: April 1, 2009

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I will be presenting at the Developmental Science Teaching Institute, a preconference meeting of the Society for Research in Child Developm...

Myths and Misunderstandings: What's It About?

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This blog is an extension of the web site childmyths.com, which contains information about my recent book Child Development: Myths and Misun...

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Jean Mercer: Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.

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