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Violence exposure in early childhood is widespread in low- and middle-income countries and has clear impacts on young ...

Psychology Assistant Professor Sarah Merrill studies the chemical tags that trauma and other adverse experiences can leave on ...

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Richard Weissbourd and Kiran Bhai are part of the leadership team at Making Caring Common, a Harvard Ed School initiative focused on making moral and social development a priority in child-raising. In ...

Robert Coplan, Ph.D., is a psychologist who studies the costs and benefits of solitude across the lifespan and is the author ...

UC Riverside has received a $1 million gift from the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Foundation to help stop child abuse ...