Special Session:Workshop on Human Potential (Clancy Blair, NYU)

***Special Session: Note Different Day, Time, and Location***

Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Devleopment, NYU, will present, "Stress, Poverty, and the Development of Executive Functions in Children."

This event is co-sponsored with Ounce of Prevention Fund and Department of Psychology.

Abstract: The talk will focus on the effects of psychosocial stress on child development and describes mechanisms through which early stress in the context of poverty affects executive functions and self-regulation development in early childhood. Effects of early experience on executive functions and on early school achievement will be examined with data from a population-based sample of children and families followed from birth through school entry.

Related Papers for Download:

Executive Function in Early Childhood

Child Development in the Context of Adversity

Salivary Cortisol Mediates Effects of Poverty and Parenting
on Executive Functions in Early Childhood

Bio: Clancy Blair, PhD, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, is a developmental psychologist who studies self-regulation in young children. His research focuses primarily on the development of cognitive abilities referred to as executive functions important for school readiness and early school achievement and the effects of early life stress on executive function development. His projects include a longitudinal study in which he examines relations among early experiential and biological influences on self-regulation development and two randomized controlled trials of an innovative early education curriculum designed to promote school achievement by fostering executive functions and self-regulation.

Prior to coming to NYU, he spent ten years as an assistant and then associate professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology and a master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1996.

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The Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential is one of the core intellectual activities of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. It is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, post docs, and faculty whose work concerns behavior, health, and well-being across the lifespan and the ways in which technology and public policy shape human potential and achievement. The Workshop/Working group has active members in the areas of the social, behavioral, health, and policy sciences.

The Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential alternates between two types of sessions. Not only do we regularly invite outside speakers for a traditional "workshop" presentation, but we also provide a forum for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students to present research-in-progress in order to receive critical and constructive feedback.