Early childhood development

UChicago conducts cutting edge research exploring the development of cognition, action, and perception in the first few years of life through the Center for Early Childhood Research, Chapin Hall, and the Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development.

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Baby with EEG

Parents’ views on justice affect babies’ moral development

Parents who praise effort can bolster children’s persistence, self-belief

Parents who praise effort can bolster children’s persistence, self-belief

Disasters prompt older children to be more giving, younger children to be more selfish

Disasters prompt older children to be more giving, younger children to be more selfish

Children’s complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school

Children’s complex thinking skills begin forming before they go to school

Laboratory Schools Director Magill announces plans for 2014 retirement

Laboratory Schools Director Magill announces plans for 2014 retirement

Unshakable Humanity: Altruism and Disaster

Unshakable Humanity: Altruism and Disaster

Prof. Jean Decety and colleagues use natural disaster as natural 'stress test' to examine children's altruism in face of adversity


UChicago doctor examines language across socioeconomic levels

UChicago doctor examines language across socioeconomic levels

Solving the puzzle of early learning Puzzle pieces on a table

Solving the puzzle of early learning

Research brings practical lessons on how children learn math and spatial concepts.

Divorce can hit children under age five especially hard

Divorce can hit children under age five especially hard

Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade Student at blackboard

Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade

University breaks ground on new childcare center set to open in 2013

University breaks ground on new childcare center set to open in 2013