Environmental influences on the pace of brain development

UA Tooley, DS Bassett, AP Mackey - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood socio-economic status (SES), a measure of the availability of material and social
resources, is one of the strongest predictors of lifelong well-being. Here we review evidence …

Education and cognitive functioning across the life span

M Lövdén, L Fratiglioni, MM Glymour… - … science in the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews

MJ Page, D Moher, PM Bossuyt, I Boutron… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
The methods and results of systematic reviews should be reported in sufficient detail to allow
users to assess the trustworthiness and applicability of the review findings. The Preferred …

The development of academic achievement and cognitive abilities: A bidirectional perspective

P Peng, RA Kievit - Child Development Perspectives, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Developing academic skills and cognitive abilities is critical for children's development. In
this article, we review evidence from recent research on the bidirectional relations between …

The challenges of achieving equity within public school gifted and talented programs

SJ Peters - Gifted Child Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
K–12 gifted and talented programs have struggled with racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, native
language, and disability inequity since their inception. This inequity has been well …

Personality and intelligence: A meta-analysis.

J Anglim, PD Dunlop, S Wee, S Horwood… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the associations of personality and
intelligence. It presents a meta-analysis (N= 162,636, k= 272) of domain, facet, and item …

Hidden talents in harsh environments

BJ Ellis, LS Abrams, AS Masten… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, children growing up in
harsh environments may develop intact, or even enhanced, skills for solving problems in …

Personality psychology

BW Roberts, HJ Yoon - Annual review of psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last …

Cognitive training does not enhance general cognition

G Sala, F Gobet - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Due to potential theoretical and societal implications, cognitive training has been one of the
most influential topics in psychology and neuroscience. The assumption behind cognitive …

Are social media ruining our lives? A review of meta-analytic evidence

M Appel, C Marker, T Gnambs - Review of General …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing number of studies have examined the psychological corollaries of using social
networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter (often called social media) …