David Moore (psychologist)
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David Scott Moore (born August 4, 1960) is an American developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at
Pitzer College Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1963 as a women's college in the Claremont Colleges consortium and became coeducational in 1970. Pitzer enrolls approximately 1000 students. Pitzer off ...
, 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 Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult bra ...
and
mental rotation Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects as it is related to the visual representation of such rotation within the human mind. There is a relationship between areas of the b ...
in
infant In common terminology, a baby is the very young offspring of adult human beings, while infant (from the Latin word ''infans'', meaning 'baby' or 'child') is a formal or specialised synonym. The terms may also be used to refer to juveniles of ...
s, as well as
behavioral epigenetics Behavioral epigenetics is the field of study examining the role of epigenetics in shaping animal and human behavior. It seeks to explain how nurture shapes nature, where nature refers to biological heredity and nurture refers to virtually everyth ...
. 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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's Eleanor Maccoby and
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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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''. 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 Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects as it is related to the visual representation of such rotation within the human mind. There is a relationship between areas of the b ...
. 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
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, 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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