David S. Moore, Ph.D.

BOOKS

• Moore, D. S. (2015). The developing genome: An introduction to behavioral epigenetics. Oxford University Press.
• Moore, D. S. (2002). The dependent gene: The fallacy of “nature vs. nurture.”  Times Books/Henry Holt & Co.

SELECTED ARTICLES

• Moore, D.S. & Lickliter, R. (In Press). Development as explanation: Understanding phenotypic stability and variability after the failure of genetic determinism. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
• Moore, D.S. (In Press). Polygenic scores ignore development and epigenetics, dramatically reducing their value. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Moore, D.S. (In Press). Epigenetics and character virtue development. In M.D. Matthews & R.M. Lerner (Eds.), Multidisciplinary handbook of character virtue development: Vol. 1. Conceptualizing and defining character virtues. Routledge.
• Moore, D.S., Oakes, L.M., Romero, V.L., & McCrink, K.C. (2022). Leveraging developmental psychology to evaluate artificial intelligence. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning.
• Moore, D.S., Witherington, D.C., Narvaez, D., Vandiver, T.I., & Lickliter, R. (2022). How deep do we have to go to rehabilitate evolutionary psychology? Reply to Bjorklund, Ellis, & Geary (2022). American Psychologist, 77(6), 784-785. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001015
• Narvaez, D., Moore, D.S., Witherington, D.C., Vandiver, T.I., & Lickliter, R. (2022). Evolving evolutionary psychology. American Psychologist, 77(3), 424-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000849
• Moore, D.S. & Flom, R. (Eds.). (2020). Epigenetics and behavioral development [editorial for a special issue]. Infant Behavior and Development, 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101477
• Moore, D.S. & Johnson, S.P. (2020). The development of mental rotation ability across the first year after birth. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 58, 1-33.https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2020.01.001
• Johnson, S.P. & Moore, D.S. (2020). Spatial thinking in infancy: Origins and development of mental rotation between 3 and 10 months of age. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 10. doi: 10.1186/s41235-020-00212-x
• Moore, D.S. (2018). Gene × Environment Interaction: What exactly are we talking about? Research in Developmental Disabilities, 82, 3-9.
• Christodoulou, J., Leland, D. S., & Moore, D. S. (2018). Overt and covert attention in infants revealed using steady-state visually evoked potentials. Developmental Psychology, 54, 803-815.
• Constantinescu, M., Moore, D. S., Johnson, S. P., & Hines, M. (2018). Early contributions to infants’ mental rotation abilities. Developmental Science, 21(4): e12613.
• Slone, L. K. Moore, D. S., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). Object exploration facilitates 4-month-olds' mental rotation performance. PLoS ONE, 13(8): e0200468.
• Heil, M., Krüger, M., Krist, H., Johnson, S. P., & Moore, D. S. (2018). Adults' sex difference in a dynamic mental rotation task: Validating infant results. Journal of Individual Differences, 39, 48-52.
• Christodoulou, J., Lac, A., & Moore, D. S. (2017). Babies and math: A meta-analysis of infants' simple arithmetic competence. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1405-1417.
• Moore, D. S. (2017). The potential of epigenetics research to transform conceptions of phenotype development. Human Development, 60, 69-80.
• Moore, D. S. (2017). Behavioral epigenetics [Individual Development & Behavior Collection]. WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine, 9. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1333
• Moore, D. S. & Shenk, D. (2017). The heritability fallacy [Individual Development & Behavior Collection]. WIREs Cognitive Science, 8. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1400
• Christodoulou, J., Johnson, S. P., Moore, D. M., & Moore, D. S. (2016). Seeing double: Five-month-olds’ mental rotation of dynamic, 3D block stimuli presented on dual monitors. Infant Behavior & Development, 45, 64-70.
• Moore, D. S. (2016). The developmental systems approach and the analysis of behavior. The Behavior Analyst, 39, 243-258. DOI 10.1007/s40614-016-0068-3
• Moore, D. S. (2013). Current thinking about nature and nurture. In K. Kampourakis (Ed.), The philosophy of biology: A companion for educators (pp. 629-652). Springer.
• Moore, D. S. (2013). Behavioral genetics, genetics, & epigenetics. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford handbook of developmental psychology (pp. 91-128). Oxford University Press.
• Moore, D. S. (2013). The babies, the representations, and the nativist-empiricist bathwater. Commentary on “Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist-empiricist debate” by J. Allen & M. Bickard. Cognitive Development, 28, 148-153.
• 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). 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. (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.
• 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., Spence, M. J., & Katz, G. S. (1997). Six-month-olds’ categorization of natural infant-directed utterances. Developmental Psychology, 33, 980-989.
• Moore, D. S. (1995). Infants' visual preferences in the presence and absence of auditory stimulation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, 164-177.
• Moore, D., Benenson, J., Reznick, J. S., Peterson, M., & Kagan, J. (1987). Effect of auditory numerical information on infants’ looking behavior: Contradictory evidence. Developmental Psychology, 23, 665-670.
• Zelazo, P. R., Weiss, M. J., Randolph, M., Swain, I. U., & Moore, D. S. (1987). The effects of delay on neonatal retention of habituated headturning. Infant Behavior and Development, 10, 417-434.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Moore, D. S. (2015). The asymmetrical bridge: Book review of James Tabery's "Beyond versus." Acta Biotheoretica, 63, 413-427. doi: 10.1007/s10441-015-9270-z
• Moore, D. S. (2011). Evelyn Fox Keller (2010), The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4731-6, 107 pages, price: $18.95. Science & Education. doi: 10.1007/s11191-011-9374-z
• Moore, D. S. (2003, Summer). Trying to fix the development in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology. The American Journal of Psychology, 299-307.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Moore, D.S. (2018, October). Epigenetics and the Development of Psychological Phenotypes. Invited address at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia, Saõ Leopoldo, Brazil.
• Moore, D. S. (2017, August). The Developing Genome: Epigenetics, Psychology, and Developmental Science. Invited address for the winner of the William James Book Award (APA Division 1), at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
• Christodoulou, J., Lac, A., & Moore, D. S. (2016, May). Arithmetic in Infancy: A Meta-analysis of Studies Following Wynn (1992). Presented at the meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Moore, D. S. (2016, February). Behavioral Epigenetics: Bringing Biology Into the Analysis of Behavior. Invited address in the Human Development and Gerontology program area at the meeting of the California Association for Behavior Analysis, Santa Clara, California.
• 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, 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.

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES

• Universidade Federal de Saõ Carlos, Brazil, 2018, October 22. Mental Rotation in Human Infants: Early Developments in Antecedent Factors.
• Georgetown University, 2018, January 24. Cognitive Development: The Role of Epigenetics.
• El Colegio de Mexico, conference on Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences, 2016, August 18. Integrating genetics & the social sciences: The promise of behavioral epigenetics.
• The International Champalimaud Neuroscience Doctoral Programme Workshop on Homology in Neuroethology, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014, November 26. Importing the homology concept from evolutionary biology.
• University of Cambridge, England, 2009, October 28. Developmental Systems Theory: The nature and nurture of genes and environments.
• University of Cambridge, England, The Department of Social and Developmental Psychology Seminar Series, 2009, October 27. The development of sex differences in mental rotation in human infants.
• Kumamoto University, Japan, 2009, January 26. Studying perception and cognition in infants: The development of categorization of infant-directed speech.