SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Contact SSHD
Society for the Study of Human Development
c/o William Kurtines, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199
e-mail: SSHD@fiu.edu
phone: 305-348-3941
Despite major statistical and methodological advances, the field is in need of new methodological tools that integrate existing and new research, at different levels of analysis, account for bi-directional feedback processes and address the complexity inherent in change that occurs throughout the lifespan. Systems science methodologies (including system dynamics, agent based modeling, network analysis, etc.) are well suited to such endeavors, but have yet to be harnessed to their full potential by developmental scientists.
President's Blog
SSHD will hold its seventh biennial conference at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island on October 28th -30th, 2011. The theme for this year’s conference will be Developmental Systems Science, and will include not only research presentations, but instructive methodology workshops. It has been increasingly recognized that human development operates at various levels (i.e. brain, cognition), and that many systems interact to shape developmental processes over time. This conference is designed to bring together students and researchers to showcase the latest thinking and research, as well as methods of collecting and analyzing data.
SSHD Conference on Developmental Systems Science: Conference Information and Call for Proposals
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The current issue of Research
in Human Development, Developmental Systems Science: Exploring
the Application of Systems Science Methods to Developmental Science
Questions Research in
Human Development,
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2011, is also
dedicated to the latest thinking and research in Developmental Systems
Science.
Systems Science Resources
