Grandparents bring “The Gruffalo” to life by doing different voices. They take you to visit lemurs at the zoo. They show you how to grow green onions on the windowsill. And they let you bite into every cookie in the tin when you can’t decide which one you want.
And, as the experience of Northeastern University psychology postdoc Kelsie Lopez shows, these family elders also inspire scientific research.
When Lopez looked at publications in neurodevelopment, the field she chose to pursue at Northeastern’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Health, she noticed a glaring omission. The vast majority of the work focused on adversity — stressful or harmful experiences that make childhood feel unsafe, unstable or unsupported.
Where was the research on things that go right, she wondered?
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