LaMarsh Centre brings Professor Marc Bornstein to York for positive parenting talk

Marc Bornstein, senior investigator and head of Child & Family Research at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in Washington, DC, will talk about positive parenting Wednesday as part of the Faculty of Health’s LaMarsh Speaker Series. The talk, “Positive Parenting and Positive Development in Children” will take place Wednesday, Nov. 17, […]

Marc Bornstein, child development researcher, to speak at York this afternoon

Marc Bornstein is one of the preeminent developmental researchers in the world and is currently the head of the Child and Family Research program at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in the United States. As a researcher, Bronstein has received numerous awards for his research from such organizations as National Institute of Child Health & Human […]

Listen to York PhD student describe research on babies and manipulation

Heidi Marsh's study about infants reading and interpreting the intentions of adults as early as six or nine months was featured on Saturday, February 13, 2010 on CBC's Quirks & Quarks, hosted by Bob McDonald. Download the podcast to hear Marsh, a psychology PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health at York's Centre for Infancy […]

Think baby knows when you tease? Study from Centre for Infancy Studies says six-month-olds know difference between play and teasing

A study by York University researchers reveals that infants as young as six months old know when we’re “playing” them – and they don’t like it. Researchers in York’s Centre for Infancy Studies examined six- and nine-month-old babies’ reactions to a game in which an experimenter was either unable or unwilling to share a toy. […]