Understanding Sexual Differentiation

Understanding Sexual Differentiation:

A New Paradigm for Psychology

A research roundtable sponsored by the Pembroke Center, with support from the Ford Foundation, the Center for the Study of Human Development, and the Wayland Collegium

November 5 & 6, 2004 • Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall (194 Meeting Street), Brown University [Map]

Introduction • Schedule • Invited Participants • Papers

The effectiveness of this roundtable depends upon the discussion that will follow each presentation. Please prepare for the discussions by familiarizing yourself with the representative papers provided by each of our presenters below.

Presenter, affiliation	Representative Paper (click to download)
Daniela M. Corbetta, Associate Professor of Health & Kinesiology, Purdue University	Behavioral fluctuations and the development of manual asymmetries in infancy
Carolyn P. Edwards, Willa Cather Professor of Psychology and Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Behavioral sex differences in children of diverse cultures: The case of nurturance to infants
Klaus Grossmann, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Universität Regensburg, Germany	Early Care and the Roots of Attachment and Partnership Representations in the Bielefeld and Regensburg Longitudinal Studies & Universality of Human Social Attachment as an Adaptive Process
Sara Harkness, Professor, School of Family Studies, University of Connecticut	Themes and Variations: Parental Ethnotheories in Western Cultures
Gilbert Herdt, Professor and Director of the Human Sexuality Studies Program, San Francisco State University, Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center	Sexual development, social oppression, and local culture
Avi Sadeh, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Children's Sleep and Arousal Disorders, Tel Aviv University	Newborns' sleep-wake patterns & Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disruptions in School-Age Children
Matthew Schlesinger, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Early Child Development Lab, Southern Illinois University	Evolving agents as a metaphor for the developing child
Lisa Serbin, Concordia University Research Chair in Human Development and Professor of Psychology, Director of the Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University	Infants' response to gender-inconsistent events & Gender stereotyping in infancy: Visual preferences for and knowledge of gender-stereotyped toys in the second year
Peter Sterling, Professor of Neuroscience in Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Principles of allostasis: optimal design, predictive regulation, pathophysiology and rational therapeutics
Stephen Suomi, Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	Mother-infant attachment, peer relationships, and the development of social networks in Rhesus monkeys

To register for the Roundtable, or for more information, please contact Alisa Hartz (Alisa_Hartz@brown.edu).