David Scott Moore (born August 4, 1960) is an American developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at

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, where he is the Director of the Claremont Infant Study Center. He is also Professor of Psychology at

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. His research focuses on cognitive development and mental rotation in

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s, as well as behavioral epigenetics. His 2002 book, '' The Dependent Gene'', criticized some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the nature-nurture debate. His 2015 book, ''The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics'', received positive reviews, and was awarded the

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Book Awards in 2016. A short précis of the book was subsequently published in '' WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine''. Moore's work has been profiled in ''

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,'' and '' Parents''. In collaboration with Scott P. Johnson, Moore has demonstrated that infants as young as three to five months of age are capable of mental rotation. Subsequent work revealed that object exploration can facilitate 4-month-olds' mental rotation performances and that early postnatal testosterone exposure and parental attitudes about gender are related to some infants' mental rotation performances. Moore was the director of the

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’s Developmental Sciences Program from 2016 to 2018, and he was elected to a three-year term as Member-at-Large of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the

, from 2020 to 2023. In August 2020, the American Psychological Association, upon the recommendation of the APA Board of Directors, conferred the Fellow status on Moore in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of psychology, effective January 2021.

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