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, April 18, 2009

Critical thinking and mastery of child development concepts, Part 5

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This is the fifth section of an unpublished paper discussing critical thinking issues and the teaxhing of child development. ...

Critical thinking and the mastery of child development concepts, Part 4

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This is the fourth section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking and teaching child development. Why Don’t Students ...
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Critical thinking and child development, Part 3

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Here is the third section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking issues and teaching child development. W...

Critical thinking and the mastery of child development concepts, Part 2

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Here is part 2 of an unpublished paper discussing the use of critical thinking concepts in teaching child development courses. ...

Critical thinking and child development concepts: Introduction

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This post and several subsequent posts comprise an unpublished paper dealing with teaching issues and on the use of critical thinking concep...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Reasoning from animals to humans

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A fascinating recent article on an ability usually thought to be human, but apparently shared by some birds: von Bayern, A.M.P., & Emery...
Monday, April 6, 2009

The animal-human analogy

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Several days ago, I commented on an article by Price in which information about mouse behavior was [over]generalized to suggest that human b...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Those Book Reviews

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On both Amazon and Barnes & noble, several of my books-- including Myths and Misunderstandings-- have been the targets of attacks by rev...
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 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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