20th BIENNIAL ISSBD MEETING

Programme Structure

The congress will feature a number of keynote lectures and invited addresses by internationally renowned scientists, invited symposia, symposia, poster workshops and individual posters. Last but not least, a series of events will offer young researchers the opportunity to meet the leaders of various developmental domains in an informal atmosphere. So far, the following outstanding scholars have accepted to enrich the scientific programme with their contributions:

Authors Index

Chairs, Co-Chairs, Discussants / Contributors index

Abstracts

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Keynote Speakers

• Patricia Bauer (Durham, USA):
  “Building Memories from the Ground Up: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Indices of Developmental Change”
• Nathan A. Fox (Maryland, USA):
  “The Effects of Severe Deprivation and Early Intervention on Children‘s Brain and Behavior: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project”
• Avi Sagi-Schwartz (Haifa, Israel):
  “How Universal Conclusions about Development May Benefit from the Study of Unique Contexts”
• Michael Tomasello (Leipzig, Germany):
  “Co-Operation and Communication in the Second Year of Life”

Invited Speakers

• Linda M. Burton (Durham, USA):
  “Poverty, Complex Families, and Sibling Inequality: Ethnographic Insights on Childbearing with Multiple Partners”
• Judy S. Deloache (Charlottesville, USA):
  “Becoming Symbol-Minded”
• Jacquelynne S. Eccles (Ann Arbor, USA):
  “Designing Developmentally Appropriate Educational Settings for Adolescents”
• Nancy L. Galambos (Edmonton, Canada):
  “Trajectories of Well-Being across the Transition to Adulthood and Beyond”
• Usha Goswami (Cambridge, UK):
  “Brain Science and Education: A Cognitive Perspective”
• Heidi Keller (Osnabrück, Germany):
  “The Fabrics of Life: Biology, Culture, and Development”
• Catherine A. McBride-Chang (Hong Kong, China):
  “Babel in Print: Children‘s Literacy Development across Cultures”
• Tomas Paus (Nottingham, UK / Montreal, Canada):
  “Mapping Cognitive Development and Brain Maturation during Adolescence”
• Rebeca E. Puche Navarro (Cali, Colombia):
  “Grasping an Explanation of Variability in Children, from a Dynamic System´s Approach”
• Robert Serpell (Lusaka, Zambia):
  “African Socialisation: Goals, Practices and Policies”
• Rosalyn H. Shute (Ballarat, Australia):
  “Sexual Bullying of Girls by Boys in High Schools”
• Rainer K. Silbereisen (Jena, Germany):
  “Individuals‘ Coping with Challenges Related to Social Change: A German Study”
• Sherry L. Willis (University Park, USA):
  “Cognition in Midlife and Old Age”

Keynote speakers and Invited speakers will be asked to be available for young researchers during special “Meet-the-Scientist” appointments. These gatherings will give young researchers the opportunity to meet the leaders of various developmental domains in an informal atmosphere.

Invited Symposia

• Marcel A. G. van Aken (Utrecht, The Netherlands) & Avshalom Caspi (London, UK):
  “Personality Development over the Life-Span”
• Lars R. Bergman (Stockholm, Sweden):
  “Different Approaches to Study Development”
• David F. Bjorklund (Boca Raton, USA) & Werner Greve (Hildesheim, Germany):
  “Developmental Evolutionary Psychology”
• Alfred C. M. Chan (Hong Kong, China):
  “Issues on Social Gerontology”
• Nandita Chaudhary (New Delhi, India):
  “Culture and Selfhood”
• Catherine R. Cooper (Santa Cruz, USA) &Suman Verma (Chandigarh, India):
  “ISSBD Regional Workshops: What Have We Learned?”
• Bram Orobio de Castro (Utrecht, The Netherlands):
  “Prevention/ Intervention Programs in the Area of Aggression”
• Cigdem Kagitcibasi (Istanbul, Turkey):
  “Autonomous-related Self and Family Change in Cultural Context“
• Mayumi Karasawa (Tokyo, Japan):
  “Action-Control Beliefs and Regulation of Emotion”
• Heikki Lyytinen (Jyväskylä, Finland):
  “Longitudinal Studies on Dyslexia”
• Peter A. Ornstein (Chapel Hill, USA):
  “Longitudinal Studies on Memory Development”
• Anne C. Petersen (Stanford, USA) & Bame A. Nsamenang (Bamenda, Cameroon):
  “Enhancing Research Capacity in Human Development in the Developing World”
• Andrei I. Podolskij (Moscow, Russia):
  “Moral Development and Education”
• Suman Verma (Chandigarh, India):
  “Mapping Typologies of Risk and Opportunities among Street Children in Four Developing Countries”