Advances in Child Development and Behavior

1. Loneliness in childhood: toward the next generation of assessment and research
2. Cognitive and linguistic correlates of early exposure to more than one language
3. The legacy of early interpersonal experience
4. Some (but not much) progress toward understanding teenage childbearing: a review of research from the past decade
5. Social-emotional development through a behavior genetics lens: infancy through preschool
6. The relation between space and math: developmental and educational implication
7. Testing models of children's self-regulation within educational contexts: implications for measurement
8. Producing and understanding prosocial actions in early childhood
9. Food and family: a socio-ecological perspective for child development

Benson, Janette B. Janette B. Benson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. She served for five years as the Director of the University-wide Office of Academic Assessment and co-chaired the successful University reaccreditation. Most recently she served as the Associate Dean of the Morgridge College of Education (2014-2017). Dr. Benson's expertise is in cognitive and sensorimotor development in infancy and early childhood, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, The MacArthur Foundation and the March of Dimes. Dr. Benson has published several articles, book chapters and has edited or co-edited several books, including The Encyclopedia of Infancy and Early Childhood Development. She has been the recipient of several awards and honors, including the University of Denver Scholar - Teacher of the Year (1993), the 2000 CASE Colorado Professor of the Year, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, member of the Board of Directors of Shortridge Academy, and the serial editor of Advances in Child Development and Behavior.