David Moore (psychologist)

{{Short description|American developmental psychologist}}

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| fields = Developmental psychology

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| thesis_title = Auditory and Visual Integration in Very Young Infants

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David Scott Moore (born August 4, 1960){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002017429.html |title=Moore, David Scott, 1960- |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |access-date=2018-11-10}} is an American developmental psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Pitzer College, where he is the Director of the Claremont Infant Study Center. He is also Professor of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on cognitive development and mental rotation in infants,{{Cite web |url=https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/david-moore/ |title=David Moore |website=Pitzer College |language=en-US |access-date=2018-11-10}} as well as behavioral epigenetics.{{Cite web |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630251-000-dna-is-lifes-blueprint-no-theres-far-more-to-it-than-that/ |title=DNA is life's blueprint? No, there's far more to it than that |last=Ainsworth |first=Claire |date=2015-06-10 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US |access-date=2018-11-10}} His 2002 book, The Dependent Gene, criticized some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the nature-nurture debate.{{cite news |last1=Angier |first1=Natalie |title=A REVOLUTION AT 50; Not Just Genes: Moving Beyond Nature vs. Nurture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/science/a-revolution-at-50-not-just-genes-moving-beyond-nature-vs-nurture.html |accessdate=11 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=25 February 2003}} His 2015 book, The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics, received positive reviews,{{cite journal | author = Wahlsten, D. | year = 2015 | title = Dynamic heredity | journal = Developmental Psychobiology | doi = 10.1002/dev.21361}}{{cite journal | author = Lee, D. | year = 2016 | title = The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics by David S. Moore (review)| journal = Configurations | volume = 24 | pages = 111–113 | doi = 10.1353/con.2016.0003}}{{cite journal | author = Youdell, D. | year = 2016 | title = New biological sciences, sociology and education | journal = British Journal of Sociology of Education | volume = 37 | issue = 5 | pages = 788–800 | doi = 10.1080/01425692.2016.1184406| s2cid = 148166694 }}{{cite journal | author = Borish, S. | year = 2016 | title = The new challenges of epigenetics | journal = Science & Education | volume = 25 | issue = 7–8 | pages = 923–926 | doi = 10.1007/s11191-016-9849-z| bibcode = 2016Sc&Ed..25..923B | s2cid = 151339808 }} and was awarded the American Psychological Association's Eleanor Maccoby{{Cite web |url=https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/book?tab=4 |title=Eleanor Maccoby Book Award |website=American Psychological Association|language=en-US |access-date=2019-09-21}} and William James{{Cite web |url=https://www.apadivisions.org/division-1/awards/james?tab=4/ |title=William James Book Award |website=American Psychological Association|language=en-US |access-date=2019-09-21}} Book Awards in 2016. A short précis of the book was subsequently published in WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine.{{cite journal | author = Moore, D.S. | year = 2017 | title = Behavioral epigenetics | journal = WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = e1333 |doi = 10.1002/wsbm.1333| pmid = 27906527 | s2cid = 2230577 }} Moore's work has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal,{{cite news |last1=Begley |first1=Sharon |title=Genes Don't Give Humans Edge Over Their Primate Relatives|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1018544984675195320|accessdate=15 September 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=12 April 2002}}{{cite news |last1=Begley |first1=Sharon |title=Hair Color Shows Its Nature With Environmental Nurture|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023985360256326280|accessdate=15 September 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=14 June 2002}} The New York Times, Scientific American,{{cite news |last1=Kaufman |first1=Scott |title=The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-complexity-of-greatness-beyond-talent-or-practice/ |accessdate=15 September 2019 |work=Scientific American |date=22 May 2013}} and Parents.{{cite news |last1=Pfaff |first1=Leslie |title=How Nature and Nurture Influence Your Baby's Development |url=https://www.parents.com/baby/development/nature-vs-nurture/ |accessdate=15 September 2019 |work=Parents }}

In collaboration with Scott P. Johnson, Moore has demonstrated that infants as young as three to five months of age are capable of mental rotation.{{cite journal|author=Moore, D.S. & Johnson, S.P.|year=2011|title=Mental rotation of dynamic, three-dimensional stimuli by 3-month-old infants|journal=Infancy|volume=16|issue=4|pages=435–445|doi=10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00058.x|pmid=26312057|pmc=4547474}}{{cite journal|author=Moore, D.S. & Johnson, S.P.|year=2008|title=Mental rotation in human infants: A sex difference|journal=Psychological Science|volume=19|issue=11|pages=1063–1066|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02200.x|pmid=19076473|pmc=2651884}} Subsequent work revealed that object exploration can facilitate 4-month-olds' mental rotation performances{{cite journal | author = Slone, L.K., Moore, D.S., & Johnson, S.P. | year = 2018 | title = Object exploration facilitates 4-month-olds' mental rotation performance | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 13 | pages = e0200468 | number = 8 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0200468| pmid = 30091988 | pmc = 6084896 | bibcode = 2018PLoSO..1300468S | doi-access = free }} and that early postnatal testosterone exposure and parental attitudes about gender are related to some infants' mental rotation performances.{{cite journal | author = Constantinescu, M., Moore, D.S., Johnson, S.P., & Hines, M. | year = 2018 | title = Early contributions to infants' mental rotation abilities | journal = Developmental Science | volume = 21 | pages = e12613 | number = 4 | doi = 10.1111/desc.12613| pmid = 29143410 | url = http://roar.uel.ac.uk/7412/1/Constantinescu%20et%20al%20DevSci%20Manuscript%20%28final%20version%29.pdf }}

Moore was the director of the National Science Foundation’s Developmental Sciences Program from 2016 to 2018, and he was elected to a three-year term as Member-at-Large of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association, from 2020 to 2023.{{Cite web |url=https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2019/10/DSM_VITAE_August-2019.pdf |title=David S. Moore Curriculum Vitae |access-date=2019-10-04}}

In August 2020, the American Psychological Association, upon the recommendation of the APA Board of Directors, conferred the Fellow status on Moore in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of psychology, effective January 2021.