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Overview

David F. Bjorklund is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States. Their research primarily spans psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, with a considerable focus on evolutionary perspectives in human behavior and development. The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Neuroscience

Their work explores several subfields of psychology, encompassing experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and clinical psychology. These subfields are:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

The topics covered in Bjorklund's research include evolutionary psychology and human behavior, child and animal learning development, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, cultural differences and values, and cognitive abilities and testing. Specifically, these topics are:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing

Bjorklund's recent publications include:

  • Children's Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education, 2022, Educational Psychology Review
  • Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children's Mental Well-being: Summary of the Evidence, 2023, The Journal of Pediatrics
  • Relapse of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale Malaria With and Without Primaquine Treatment in a Nonendemic Area, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases (authored by Andreas Wångdahl)
  • Evolutionary Developmental Psychology, 2020, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies (authored by Ashley C. King)
  • Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework, 2024, Educational Psychology Review (authored by Peter Claudius Osei)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bjorklund include:

  • Lynne Baker-Ward
  • Jennifer L. Coffman
  • Carlos Hernández Blasi
  • Alyson J. Myers
  • Sonia Agut Nieto

The scientist has contributed to book publications with prominent academic publishers, including:

  • Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy, published by Springer International Publishing in 2022

Bjorklund's research is regularly published in venues such as Educational Psychology Review, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, The Journal of Pediatrics, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Evolutionary Psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

    David F. Bjorklund;Anthony D. Pellegrini

  • Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences

    David F. Bjorklund

  • The role of immaturity in human development.

    David F. Bjorklund

  • The resources construct in cognitive development: Diverse sources of evidence and a theory of inefficient inhibition.

    David F Bjorklund;Katherine Kipp Harnishfeger

  • Child development and evolutionary psychology.

    David F. Bjorklund;Anthony D. Pellegrini

  • Children's Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

    David F. Bjorklund

  • The natural emergence of reasoning about the afterlife as a developmental regularity

    Jesse M. Bering;David F. Bjorklund

  • Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

    David C. Geary;David F. Bjorklund

  • Parental investment theory and gender differences in the evolution of inhibition mechanisms.

    David F. Bjorklund;Katherine Kipp

  • The development of memory strategies

    David F. Bjorklund;Charles Dukes;Rhonda Douglas Brown

  • How age changes in knowledge base contribute to the development of children's memory: An interpretive review

    David F Bjorklund

  • Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development.

    Bruce J. Ellis;David F. Bjorklund

  • The Adaptive Nature of Cognitive Immaturity.

    David F. Bjorklund;Brandi L. Green

  • Instructing Children to Use Memory Strategies: Evidence of Utilization Deficiencies in Memory Training Studies

    David F. Bjorklund;Patricia H. Miller;Thomas R. Coyle;Jennifer L. Slawinski

  • Children's strategies: Contemporary views of cognitive development.

    David F. Bjorklund

  • The Role of Conceptual Knowledge in the Development of Organization in Children’s Memory

    David F. Bjorklund

  • The evolution of inhibition mechanisms and their role in human cognition and behavior

    David F. Bjorklund;Katherine Kipp Harnishfeger

  • The Ontogeny of Inhibition Mechanisms: A Renewed Approach to Cognitive Development

    Katherine Kipp Harnishfeger;David F. Bjorklund

  • Developmental Patterns of Eyewitness Responses to Repeated and Increasingly Suggestive Questions

    William S. Cassel;Claudia E.M. Roebers;David F. Bjorklund

  • Differences in Parental Investment Contribute to Important Differences Between Men and Women

    David F. Bjorklund;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Trying to Fix the Development in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology@@@The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology

    David Moore;David F. Bjorklund;Anthony D. Pellegrini

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony D. Pellegrini
Anthony D. Pellegrini University of Minnesota
Wolfgang Schneider
Wolfgang Schneider University of Würzburg
Bruce J. Ellis
Bruce J. Ellis University of Utah
Patricia H. Miller
Patricia H. Miller San Francisco State University
Peter A. Ornstein
Peter A. Ornstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Claudia M. Roebers
Claudia M. Roebers University of Bern
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
David C. Geary
David C. Geary University of Missouri
Brett Laursen
Brett Laursen Florida Atlantic University
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford

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