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In a new approach to this multi-faceted and seemingly intractable problem, Most is partnering with Dr. Sandra Hassink, director of the Pediatric Weight Management Clinic at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children; Meredith Lutz Stehl, a clinical psychologist at the hospital; and James Hoffman and Robert Simons, professors in UD's Department of Psychology. Their collaborative research is aimed at assessing whether individuals struggling with weight management exhibit characteristic neuro-cognitive indices related to attentional control and self-control.

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Mary Dozier and Johanna Bick will be giving a talk entitled, “Designing early interventions for high risk mother-child dyads: Behavioral and neuro- hormonal mechanisms.”

Professor Carroll Izard’s “Emotion Course” trains teachers to use puppets and story-telling to help Head Start youngsters learn from emotional experiences. Now, Izard and his team of researchers are adding new components to the groundbreaking program.

In a challenging economic environment that has seen programs across the country eliminated and funding from all sources declining, the Psychology Department has shown a positive trend in external funding. In fact, between 2000 and 2004, total funding tripled; it has remained steady over the last four years.

As any parent or caregiver will tell you, figuring out how to keep an infant happy can be a challenging task. Understanding how infants as young as three months old synthesize and catalogue information is the much more difficult task Paul Quinn tackles in his infant cognition research.