
David S. Moore, Ph.D.
Sometimes I look like this:
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)
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My recent publications & conference presentations include the following:
- Moore, D. S. & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Mental rotation in human infants: A sex
difference. Psychological Science.
- Moore, D. S. (2008). Espousing interactions and fielding reactions: Addressing laypeople’s
beliefs about genetic determinism. Philosophical Psychology, 21, 331-348.
- Moore, D. S. (in press). Probing predispositions: The pragmatism of a process perspective.
Child Development Perspectives.
- Moore, D. S. (Ed.). (in press). Integrating development and evolution in psychology:
Looking back, moving forward [Special issue]. New Ideas in Psychology.
- Moore, D. S. (in press). Individuals and populations: How biology's theory and data
have interfered with the integration of development and evolution. New Ideas
in Psychology.
- 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 (SRCD), press here.
To link to the homepage of the American Psychological Association, press here.
To link to the homepage of the International Society on Infant Studies, press here.
For the homepage of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, press here.
If you would like to send me e-mail, please do. I can be reached at: dmoore@pitzer.edu
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