This review examines mechanisms contributing to the intergenerational transmission of self-
regulation. To provide an integrated account of how self-regulation is transmitted across …

This article systematically reviews what is known empirically about the association between
executive function and student achievement in both reading and math and critically …

Effective early education is essential for academic achievement and positive life outcomes,
particularly for children in poverty. Advances in neuroscience suggest that a focus on self …

In a predominantly low‐income population‐based longitudinal sample of 1,292 children
followed from birth, higher level of salivary cortisol assessed at ages 7, 15, and 24 months …

This study examined the role of self‐regulation in emerging academic ability in one hundred
and forty‐one 3‐to 5‐year‐old children from low‐income homes. Measures of effortful …

This article considers the effects of psychosocial stress on child development and describes
mechanisms through which early stress in the context of poverty affects the functioning of …

Social environments and experiences get under the skin early in life in ways that affect the
course of human development. Because most factors associated with early child …

This study examined the direct and interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity
on socioemotional and cognitive development in three hundred and thirty‐eight 5‐to 6‐year …

Empathy appears to exist in some nonhuman species (Preston & de Waal, 2002), and
evidence of empathic responding (ie, offering help or comfort to another in distress …

Although executive function (EF) is often considered a domain-general cognitive function, a
distinction has been made between the “cool” cognitive aspects of EF more associated with …