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David Moore

  • Professor of Psychology; Psychology Field Group
Professor Emeritus David Moore
Email
David_Moore@landaiztc.com
Website
Personal Website

With Pitzer Since: 1989

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

 

  • MA, PhD, Harvard University
  • BA, Tufts University
  • Cognitive development
  • The development of mental rotation
  • Infant-directed speech
  • Categorization in infancy
  • Electrophysiological methods in the study of infant perception
  • Perception of numerosity in infancy
  • The Interface of developmental psychology and artificial intelligence
  • Introduction to Psychology (PSY10)
  • Senior Research Methods (PSY112)
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (PSY125)
  • Monkey Business: Controversies in Human Evolution (PSY130)
  • Seeking Human Nature: The History and Science of Innateness (PSY138)
  • Cognitive Development (PSY154)
  • Seminar in Developmental Psychology (PSY199)
  • Minds & Machines: From C3PO to Alexa to Skynet? (COGS 123)
  • Child Development (PSY 105)

 

  • Moore, D. S., Kampourakis, K., & Gericke, N. M. (In Press). The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism. Human Development. http://doi.org/10.1159/000543465
  • Moore, D. S., Moore, D. M., & Johnson, S. P. (2024). Minding the gap: A sex difference in young infants’ mental rotation through thirty degrees of arc. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1415651
  • Moore, D. S. & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2024). How do babies come to know what babies know? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e138. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003102
  • Moore, D. S. (2024). Epigenetics and character virtue development. In M. D. Matthews & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of multidisciplinary perspectives on character development, Vol. 1: Conceptualizing and defining character (pp. 13 – 33). Routledge.
  • Witherington, D. C., Lickliter, R., & Moore, D. S. (2023). What taking development seriously means for evolutionary theory. Human Development, 67, 318 – 327. http://doi.org/10.1159/000535723
  • Moore, D. S., & Lickliter, R. (2023). Development as explanation: Understanding phenotypic stability and variability after the failure of genetic determinism. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 178, 72 – 77. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2023.01.003
  • Moore, D. S. (2023). On the evolution of epigenetics via exaptation: A developmental systems perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1529(1), 21 – 32. http://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15065
  • Lickliter, R., & Moore, D. S. (2023). Molecular and systemic epigenetic inheritance: Integrating development, genetics, and evolution. Human Development, 67, 305 – 317. http://doi.org/10.1159/000533192
  • Moore, D. S. (2023). Polygenic scores ignore development and epigenetics, dramatically reducing their value. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E220. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002473
  • Moore, D. S., Oakes, L. M., Romero, V. L., & McCrink, K. C. (2022). Leveraging developmental psychology to evaluate artificial intelligence. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, United Kingdom, pp. 36-41, http://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962183
  • 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. http://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://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-04787-001?doi=1
  • 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 - 3. doi: 10.1016/bs.acbd.2020.01.001
  • 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
  • Christodoulou, J., • Lac, A., & Moore, 0. S. (2017). Babies and math: A meta-analysis of infants' simple arithmetic competence. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1405 - 1417.
  • Moore, 0. S. (2017). The potential of epigenetics research to transform conceptions of phenotype development. Human Development, 60, 69 - 80.
  • Moore, 0. S. (2017). Behavioral epigenetics [Individual Development & Behavior Collection). WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine, 9. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1333
  • Moore, 0. S. & Shenk, 0. (2017). The heritability fallacy [Individual Development & Behavior Collection). WIREs Cognitive Science, 8. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1400
  • Christodoulou, J.,' Johnson, S. P., Moore, 0. M., & Moore, D. S. (2016). Seeing double: Five-month-olds' mental rotation of dynamic, 30 block stimuli presented on dual monitors. Infant Behavior & Development, 45, 64 - 70.
  • Moore, 0. 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, 0. S. (2015). The developing genome: An introduction to behavioral epigenetics. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • "Current Thinking About Nature and Nurture," in Kostas Kampourakis, ed., The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators, New York, NY: Springer, 2013.
  • "Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, & Epigenetics," in Philip D. Zelazo, ed., Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • "Big B, little b: Myth #1 is that Mendelian Genes Actually Exist," in Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, eds., Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • "Sex Differences in Normal Fetuses and Infants: A Commentary," Child Development Perspectives, vol. 6, no. 4 (November 2012).
  • "Importing the Homology Concept from Biology into Developmental Psychology," Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 55, no. 1 (June 2012).
  • The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller, in Science & Education, vol. 21, no. 4 (April 2012).
  • "Mental Rotation of Dynamic, Three-Dimensional Stimuli by 3-month-old Infants," Infancy, 16 (2011 ). With S.P. Johnson.
  • "Neural Re-use as a Source of Developmental Homology," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33 (2010). With C. Moore. 
  • “Possible roles for developmental science in the creation of artificial general intelligence,” an invited talk at Stanford University, December 4, 2024.
  • “How to think about heritability and inheritability,” an invited talk at Karlstad University, Sweden, Genetics and Evolution Education Research Workshop, June 17, 2024.
  • “Roles for developmental science in the creation of AI: A post-mortem on DARPA’s Machine Common Sense program,” an invited talk at the University of California, Davis, February 15, 2024.
  • “What developmental science brings to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence: A post-mortem evaluation of DARPA’s Machine Common Sense program,” an invited talk at the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI), January 12, 2024.
  • “Thirty degrees of separation: Exploring 5-month-old infants’ mental rotation through a 30-degree angle,” poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2023. With Dawn Michele Moore and Scott P. Johnson.
  • “The evaluation of artificial intelligence: Harnessing developmental psychology theory and methods,” paper presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary, January, 2023. With Koleen C. McCrink and Lisa M. Oakes.
  • “An introduction to behavioural epigenetics,” an invited talk at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, October 19, 2022.
  • “How newer conceptions of inheritance contribute to a more integrated understanding of development and evolution,” paper presented in an invited symposium on “Rethinking genetics, epigenetics, and inheritance” at the meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 2022.
  • “Developmental science and DARPA’s Machine Common Sense project,” an invited talk at UCLA (the University of California, Los Angeles), February 22, 2022.
  • “Epigenetics and the development of psychological phenotypes,” an invited talk at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, October 22, 2018.
  • “Mental rotation in human infants: Early developments and antecedent factors,” an invited talk at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, October 22, 2018.
  • "Cognitive Development: The Role of Epigenetics," invited talk at Georgetown University, Washington DC, January 24, 2018.
  • "Epigenetics, Psychology, and Developmental Science," invited talk at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 14, 2017.
  • "What Are You Afraid of? Infant Attention to Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions in the Context of Novel Objects," poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 2013. With Alison Goldstein and Patricia A. Smiley.
  • "Epigenetics: The Bridge between Biology and Psychology," invited lecture to the Pomona College chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, Claremont, CA, April 11, 2013.
  • "Infants' Visual-Manual Object Exploration and Mental Rotation Performance," paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 2013. With Lauren E. Krogh and Scott P. Johnson.
  • "Epigenesis and the Epigenetics Revolution," invited lecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 11, 2012.
  • "Mental Rotation in 5-month-olds Tested with Paired Stimuli," paper presented at the 18th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 8, 2012. With Scott P. Johnson.
  • "Core Knowledge, Evolution, and Development," paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada, June 1, 2012.
  • "Mental Rotation of 30 Objects in Early Infancy," invited lecture at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 2012.
  • "Reintegrating Evo and Devo: A Consideration of the Problem," paper presented at a symposium entitled "Reintegrating Evolution and Development in Developmental Research" at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, April 2011.
  • "Visual-Manual Object Exploration and Mental Rotation in Infancy," paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, April 2011. With L. E. Krogh and S.P. Johnson.
  • "On Interactions between Genetic and Environmental Contributors to Behavioral Development," invited address at the meeting of the California Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, CA, February 2011.
  • "The Epigenetic Revolution: Changing Views of Biopsychological Inheritance, and What It All Means for Society," invited lecture at The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics, May 20, 2010. 
  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2025)
  • Selected to deliver the Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association (2025)
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University (2023 – 2024)
  • Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 1 (General Psychology, 2022)
  • Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology, 2021)
  • Psychometric Intelligent Agent Graphical Environment and Testbed (PIAGET), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Principal Investigator: Victoria Romero, Consultants: David S. Moore, Lisa M. Oakes, & Koleen McCrink.
  • Recipient of the American Psychological Association's William James Book Award, for an"outstanding" book that synthesizes "diverse subfields of psychology & related disciplines" (2016)
  • Recipient of the American Psychological Association's Eleanor Maccoby Book Award, for a book that has had a "profound effect" on Developmental Psychology (2016)
  • Co-editor, Special Issue: Homology in Developmental Psychology, Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 55, no. 1 (January 2013). With Chris Moore.
  • MRI: Acquisition of a High-density Electrophysiology Laboratory for Intercollegiate Research and Training in Cognitive Neuroscience, National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator: Alan Hartley, co-PIS: David S. Moore, Catherine Reed, Michael Spezio, & Stacey Wood.
  • Workshop: Exploring the Concept of Homology in Developmental Psychology, National Science Foundation, 2010-2011. Principal Investigator: David S. Moore, co-P.I.: Chris Moore.