Jack Block: 1924-2010

Jack Block, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and a member of IHD for many years, died on January 13, 2010. As many of you know, Professor Block published research based on longitudinal studies in IHD. Professor Block conducted his most influential work in collaboration with his late wife, Jeanne Humphrey Block. He was widely known for longitudinal research projects, spanning decades, examining the factors that influence development. He explored the impact of divorce on children, effects of early childhood experiences on political values, antecedents of drug use and abuse, the genesis of depression, and differences in the development of boys and girls. He was known as a rigorous methodologist and an incisive critic who engaged in vigorous debate and made major contributions to key theoretical issues in psychology: the continuity/discontinuity of personality over time, conceptual models of personality, sex-role development, and improving the reliability of clinical judgments about character and personality.

http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/docs/Block_obituary.pdf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/02/BALP1BPTLL.DTL

Norm Constantine critiques Sonoma County abstinence-only curriculum

In an op ed published in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Professor Constantine argues that Life Choice-Healthy Futures, an abstinence‐only‐until‐marriage curriculum widely used in Sonoma County schools, is medically inaccurate and biased, in violation of state law.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091210/OPINION/912109903/1307?Title=GUEST-OPINION-Why-Free-to-Be-curriculum-violates-the-state-Education-Code

Norm Constantine discusses adolescent sleep deprivation

In Sleepless in Textland, appearing in the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, and Contra Costa Times, Norm Constantine, IHD member and clinical professor in the School of Public Health, discusses psychological and educational problems associated with adolescent sleep deprivation, and the potential role of late night texting:
http://www.mercurynews.com/style/ci_13301926
http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_13317753

Reviews for The Philosophical Baby

You may read some of the reviews of Prof. Alison Gopnik's new book, The Philosophical Baby, found through the following links:

New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b26dfcf8-77e2-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html

Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=23611818

The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/08/philosophical-baby-alison-gopnik-review

Phil and Carolyn Cowanin the SJ Mercury News

Phil and Carolyn Cowan's research on the importance of father involvement is discussed in the San Jose Mercury News :
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12957837?nclick_check=1

Steve Hinshaw discusses The Triple Bind

Steve Hinshaw is interviewed by Faiza Elmasry for Voice in America to discuss his new book, The Triple Bind:
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-07-16-voa61.cfm

Alison Gopnik in The SF Chronicle

Alison Gopnik, IHD member and Professor in the Department of Psychology, discusses her new book, The Philosophical Baby, in The San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/DDMV190EGG.DTL