Presidential Symposium

Self-Regulation Across Individuals and Development

Friday, May 22
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Broadway Ballroom

Nancy Eisenberg (Chair)
Arizona State University

	Clancy Blair New York University   Making Sense of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: The Development of Executive Functions		Ruth Feldman Bar-Ilan University, Israel   Regulation Across the First Decade of Life: Brain and Behavior, Health and Pathology
	Angela L. Duckworth University of Pennsylvania   Self-Control Strategies for School-Age Children		BJ Casey Weill Cornell Medical College   Beyond Simple Models of Self-Control to Circuit-Based Accounts of Adolescent Behavior

Individual differences in self-regulation emerge in a developmental context and vary as a function of both biological and social processes. In this symposium, participants will discuss conceptual perspectives and empirical findings pertaining to the emergence of or change in self-regulation (and/or executive functioning) as a function of stress-response physiology, oxytocin, neurobiology, meta-cognitive strategies, and socialization and other contextual factors (e.g., the physical environment). The speakers’ work reflects the multi-method and often longitudinal approaches that characterize cutting-edge psychological science regarding the development of self-regulatory capacities.