David S. Moore, Ph.D.
Here's what I look like when I'm knocking to see if Charles Darwin
is at home:
If you're here about my book, you can check out reviews and order The
Dependent Gene from Amazon.com. Happy reading!!
If you're here for some other reason, here's a bit of info about me. In
1989, I came to work as an assistant professor of psychology at Pitzer
College, one of The Claremont
Colleges in Southern California. I arrived at Pitzer fresh from my
postdoctoral fellowship at The City
University of New York. Prior to that, I completed my Ph.D. in The
Department of Psychology at Harvard University, where my advisor was Jerome
Kagan (and where I learned a
lot from J. Steven
Reznick). Before that, I was an undergraduate at Tufts
University, where I'd arrived direct from Cleveland, Ohio, home of
the Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame. After spending the 2004-2006 academic years teaching and
doing research in New York City, I returned to Claremont, to pick up where
I'd left off. My office at Pitzer is currently in Broad Hall.
In the "other stuff" department....
This is a picture of my beloved dog,
James Taylor. A click on his
picture lets you read more about him...
Wanna see a
slide show? These are pictures
from my travels...
I teach a variety of courses at Pitzer, including the following:
In addition, I am the Director of The
Claremont Infant Study Center (also in Broad Hall). At the center,
we are busy conducting a variety of studies on cognition and perception in
infancy, including research on categorization, perception of
Infant-Directed speech, and infants' abilities to manipulate visual images
in their minds (in collaboration with Scott P. Johnson at the University
of California, Los Angeles).
My recent publications & conference presentations include the
following:
- Moore, D. S. (2013). Behavioral genetics, genetics, &
epigenetics. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford handbook of developmental
psychology (pp. 91-128). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Moore, D. S. (2013). Big B, little b: Myth #1 is that Mendelian genes
actually exist. In S. Krimsky & J. Gruber (Eds.), Genetic
explanations: Sense and nonsense (pp. 43-50). Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press.
- Moore, D. S. (2013). Importing the homology concept from biology into
developmental psychology. Developmental Psychobiology, 55,
13-21.
- Moore, D. S. & Moore, C. (Eds.).(2013). Homology in developmental
psychology [Special issue]. Developmental Psychobiology, 55(1).
- Moore, D. S. (2012). Sex differences in normal fetuses and infants: A
commentary. Child Development Perspectives, 6, 414-416.
- Moore, D. S. & Johnson, S. P. (2011). Mental rotation of dynamic,
three-dimensional stimuli by 3-month-old infants. Infancy, 16,
435-445.
- Moore, D. S. & Moore, C. (2010). Neural re-use as a source of
developmental homology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33,
284-285.
- Moore, D. S. (2009). Probing predispositions: The pragmatism of a
process perspective. Child Development Perspectives, 3, 91-93.
- Moore, D. S. & Johnson, S. P. (2008). Mental rotation in human
infants: A sex difference. Psychological Science, 19, 1063-1066.
- Moore, D. S. (2008). Espousing interactions and fielding reactions:
Addressing laypeople?s beliefs about genetic determinism. Philosophical
Psychology, 21, 331-348.
- Moore, D. S. (Ed.). (2008). Integrating development and evolution in
psychology: Looking back, moving forward [Special issue]. New Ideas
in Psychology, 26, 327-331.
- Moore, D. S. (2008). Individuals and populations: How biology's
theory and data have interfered with the integration of development and
evolution. New Ideas in Psychology, 26, 370-386.
- Moore, D. S. (2007, May). The Developmental-Systems Perspective on
the Analysis of Behavior. The invited B.F. Skinner Lecture at the 33rd
annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis: International,
San Diego, California.
- Moore, D. S. (2006). A very little bit of knowledge: Re-evaluating
the meaning of the heritability of IQ. Human Development, 49,
347-353.
- Moore, D. S. & Cocas, L. A. (2006). Perception precedes
computation: Can familiarity preferences explain apparent calculation by
human babies? Developmental Psychology, 42, 666-678.
- Moore, D. S. (2006, June). Addition and Subtraction in Infancy: Sex
Differences and the Role of Test Stimulus Familiarity. Presented at the
meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
- Romero, V. L. & Moore, D. S. (2006, June). Attention Control in
Early Infancy: 2-, 3-, and 4-Month-Olds? Ability to Inhibit Visual
Attention to an Attractive Stimulus. Presented at the meeting of the
International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
- Moore, D. S. (2003). Trying to fix the development in Evolutionary
Developmental Psychology. The American Journal of Psychology, 116,
299-307.
- Spence, M. J. & Moore, D. S. (2003). Categorization of
infant-directed speech: Development from 4 to 6 months. Developmental
Psychobiology, 42, 97-109.
- Moore, D. S. (2002). The
dependent gene. . New York: Times Books/Henry Holt.
- Spence, M. J. & Moore, D. S. (2002). Categorization of
infant-directed speech. In J. W. Fagen & H. H. Hayne (Eds.), Progress
in infancy research (vol. 2, pp. 261 - 293). Mahwah, N.J.:
Erlbaum.
For the homepage of the Society for Research in Child Development
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Psychobiology,
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If you would like to send me e-mail, please do. I can be reached at:
dmoore@pitzer.edu
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