David S Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3774069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitzer College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4230-5393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Problems with Genetic Essentialism, Determinism, and Reductionism
In this article, we address misunderstandings about genetic essentialism, genetic determinism, and genetic reductionism. There are good reasons to carefully consider the meanings and relationships that characterize genetic essentialism, genetic determinism, and genetic reductionism; these are different (if related) concepts, despite their superficial resemblances. Although a recent Nature Reviews Genetics article addressed these issues, problems …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Developmental Plasticity in Early Human Development
Introduction to the Special Issue: Development, Evolution, and Movements toward Resynthesis
No abstract, as this is an introduction to a special issue and effectively serves as an editorial
Molecular and Systemic Epigenetic Inheritance: Integrating Development, Genetics, and Evolution
Currently, a central problem for theoretical biology is the integration of development with genetics and evolutionary theory. Through the late 20th century, biologists held that animals resemble their ancestors strictly because of the transgenerational transmission of DNA. This view effectively wrote development out of evolutionary biology. However, many molecular and developmental biologists now understand that phenotypes – anatomical, physiolog…
What Taking Development Seriously Means for Evolutionary Theory
Proponents of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) emphasize the critical role that organisms and their development play in the process of evolution. This framework explicitly rejects the genocentric focus that once dominated interpretations of the Modern Synthesis in evolutionary theory. In place of genocentrism, EES highlights processes like niche construction, developmental constraint, and extragenetic inheritance as central to any unders…
Molecular Spectroscopy of Dynamically Compressed Materials
Evolving evolutionary psychology
Which evolutionary theory can best benefit psychological theory, research, and application? The most well-known school of evolutionary psychology has a narrow conceptual perspective (a.k.a., "Narrow Evolutionary Psychology" or NEP). Proponents of NEP have long argued that their brand of evolutionary psychology represents a full-fledged scientific revolution, with Buss (2020) recently likening NEP's scientific impact to that of a Copernican or Dar…
Overt and covert attention in infants revealed using steady-state visually evoked potentials
Although looking-time methods have long been used to measure infant attention and investigate aspects of cognitive development, steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) measures may be more sensitive or practical in some contexts. Here, we demonstrate habituation of infants' SSVEP amplitudes to a flickering checkerboard stimulus, and recovery of attention upon presentation of a novel checkerboard stimulus. This modulation of SSVEP amplitude…
The Potential of Epigenetics Research to Transform Conceptions of Phenotype Development
Epigenetics remains an exciting subdiscipline of biology, generating discoveries and insights about development. Because epigenetic phenomena can draw attention to the dynamic, interactional, and probabilistic nature of phenotype development, epigenetics research could hasten the demise of both nature-nurture debates and reductionist, genetically determinist perspectives on phenotype development. However, new data alone will not inevitably transf…
Babies and math: A meta-analysis of infants’ simple arithmetic competence
Contents Vol. 49, 2006
Acknowlegment
A Very Little Bit of Knowledge: Re-Evaluating the Meaning of the Heritability of IQ
There is a deeper assumption underlying adoption studies that is often not acknowledged by either adoption study researchers or their critics, and it is an assumptions that is at least as important as the two considered by Richardson and Norgate: the assumption that the heritability statistics generated by adoption studies are informative about something of consequence. Although Richardson and Norgate’s paper presents several valid criticisms of …
Perception precedes computation: Can familiarity preferences explain apparent calculation by human babies
Two studies of 5-month-old infants explored whether a phenomenon reported by K. Wynn (1992) reflects a familiarity preference instead of a mathematical competence. Experiment 1 was a conceptual replication of Wynn's study. When data were analyzed with the relatively liberal statistical approach used by Wynn, the original phenomenon was replicated. However, an analysis of variance revealed that girls and boys behaved in different ways, and that bo…
Six-month-olds' categorization of natural infant-directed utterances
In this study, the authors demonstrated that 6-month-old infants are able to categorize natural, 650 Hz low-pass filtered infant-directed utterances. In Experiment 1, 24 male and 24 female infants heard 7 different tokens from 1 class of utterance (comforting or approving). Then, some infants heard a novel test stimulus from the familiar class of tokens; others heard a test stimulus from the unfamiliar class. Infants categorized these tokens as e…
Discerning Pedagogical Tools from Impediments: A Comment on Schacht's Review of Statistics Textbooks
One of the texts that Dr. Schacht purports to review is (sic) and Becker's Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. I'm very familiar with this text since I've been using it in my own statistics classroom since it came out last January. The senior author of this text, as is clearly printed on its front cover and elsewhere, is James Jaccard (Jaccard and Becker 1990). Please note the correct spelling. This is not an isolated typographical er…
Evolving evolutionary psychology
Which evolutionary theory can best benefit psychological theory, research, and application? The most well-known school of evolutionary psychology has a narrow conceptual perspective (a.k.a., "Narrow Evolutionary Psychology" or NEP). Proponents of NEP have long argued that their brand of evolutionary psychology represents a full-fledged scientific revolution, with Buss (2020) recently likening NEP's scientific impact to that of a Copernican or Dar…
Overt and covert attention in infants revealed using steady-state visually evoked potentials
Although looking-time methods have long been used to measure infant attention and investigate aspects of cognitive development, steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) measures may be more sensitive or practical in some contexts. Here, we demonstrate habituation of infants' SSVEP amplitudes to a flickering checkerboard stimulus, and recovery of attention upon presentation of a novel checkerboard stimulus. This modulation of SSVEP amplitude…
Perception precedes computation: Can familiarity preferences explain apparent calculation by human babies
Two studies of 5-month-old infants explored whether a phenomenon reported by K. Wynn (1992) reflects a familiarity preference instead of a mathematical competence. Experiment 1 was a conceptual replication of Wynn's study. When data were analyzed with the relatively liberal statistical approach used by Wynn, the original phenomenon was replicated. However, an analysis of variance revealed that girls and boys behaved in different ways, and that bo…
Discerning Pedagogical Tools from Impediments: A Comment on Schacht's Review of Statistics Textbooks
One of the texts that Dr. Schacht purports to review is (sic) and Becker's Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. I'm very familiar with this text since I've been using it in my own statistics classroom since it came out last January. The senior author of this text, as is clearly printed on its front cover and elsewhere, is James Jaccard (Jaccard and Becker 1990). Please note the correct spelling. This is not an isolated typographical er…
Six-month-olds' categorization of natural infant-directed utterances
In this study, the authors demonstrated that 6-month-old infants are able to categorize natural, 650 Hz low-pass filtered infant-directed utterances. In Experiment 1, 24 male and 24 female infants heard 7 different tokens from 1 class of utterance (comforting or approving). Then, some infants heard a novel test stimulus from the familiar class of tokens; others heard a test stimulus from the unfamiliar class. Infants categorized these tokens as e…
Contents Vol. 49, 2006
Acknowlegment
A Very Little Bit of Knowledge: Re-Evaluating the Meaning of the Heritability of IQ
There is a deeper assumption underlying adoption studies that is often not acknowledged by either adoption study researchers or their critics, and it is an assumptions that is at least as important as the two considered by Richardson and Norgate: the assumption that the heritability statistics generated by adoption studies are informative about something of consequence. Although Richardson and Norgate’s paper presents several valid criticisms of …
Perception precedes computation: Can familiarity preferences explain apparent calculation by human babies
Two studies of 5-month-old infants explored whether a phenomenon reported by K. Wynn (1992) reflects a familiarity preference instead of a mathematical competence. Experiment 1 was a conceptual replication of Wynn's study. When data were analyzed with the relatively liberal statistical approach used by Wynn, the original phenomenon was replicated. However, an analysis of variance revealed that girls and boys behaved in different ways, and that bo…
The Potential of Epigenetics Research to Transform Conceptions of Phenotype Development
Epigenetics remains an exciting subdiscipline of biology, generating discoveries and insights about development. Because epigenetic phenomena can draw attention to the dynamic, interactional, and probabilistic nature of phenotype development, epigenetics research could hasten the demise of both nature-nurture debates and reductionist, genetically determinist perspectives on phenotype development. However, new data alone will not inevitably transf…
Babies and math: A meta-analysis of infants’ simple arithmetic competence
Overt and covert attention in infants revealed using steady-state visually evoked potentials
Although looking-time methods have long been used to measure infant attention and investigate aspects of cognitive development, steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) measures may be more sensitive or practical in some contexts. Here, we demonstrate habituation of infants' SSVEP amplitudes to a flickering checkerboard stimulus, and recovery of attention upon presentation of a novel checkerboard stimulus. This modulation of SSVEP amplitude…
Evolving evolutionary psychology
Which evolutionary theory can best benefit psychological theory, research, and application? The most well-known school of evolutionary psychology has a narrow conceptual perspective (a.k.a., "Narrow Evolutionary Psychology" or NEP). Proponents of NEP have long argued that their brand of evolutionary psychology represents a full-fledged scientific revolution, with Buss (2020) recently likening NEP's scientific impact to that of a Copernican or Dar…
Molecular Spectroscopy of Dynamically Compressed Materials
Introduction to the Special Issue: Development, Evolution, and Movements toward Resynthesis
No abstract, as this is an introduction to a special issue and effectively serves as an editorial
Molecular and Systemic Epigenetic Inheritance: Integrating Development, Genetics, and Evolution
Currently, a central problem for theoretical biology is the integration of development with genetics and evolutionary theory. Through the late 20th century, biologists held that animals resemble their ancestors strictly because of the transgenerational transmission of DNA. This view effectively wrote development out of evolutionary biology. However, many molecular and developmental biologists now understand that phenotypes – anatomical, physiolog…
What Taking Development Seriously Means for Evolutionary Theory
Proponents of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) emphasize the critical role that organisms and their development play in the process of evolution. This framework explicitly rejects the genocentric focus that once dominated interpretations of the Modern Synthesis in evolutionary theory. In place of genocentrism, EES highlights processes like niche construction, developmental constraint, and extragenetic inheritance as central to any unders…
The Problems with Genetic Essentialism, Determinism, and Reductionism
In this article, we address misunderstandings about genetic essentialism, genetic determinism, and genetic reductionism. There are good reasons to carefully consider the meanings and relationships that characterize genetic essentialism, genetic determinism, and genetic reductionism; these are different (if related) concepts, despite their superficial resemblances. Although a recent Nature Reviews Genetics article addressed these issues, problems …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Developmental Plasticity in Early Human Development
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