2024 Authur W Staats Award
The Arthur W. Staats Lecture was established in 1997 by Peter S. Staats, MD, in honor of his father, Arthur W. Staats, PhD. Each year, the lecturer delivers an address on a body of work which has held great significance for many fields of psychology or has the potential to be extrapolated to have unifying power within the discipline of psychology as a whole.
2024 Winner
David Moore
Dr. Moore is a Harvard-trained developmental cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in infant cognition. His theoretical writings explore the contributions of genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors to human development. His empirical research has produced numerous publications on the development of mental rotation in infancy, on the electrophysiological measurement of covert attention in infants, on the emergence of infants’ nascent “mathematical” competence, and on the value of developmental science for improving artificial intelligence. Dr. Moore’s book The Dependent Gene has been widely adopted for use in undergraduate education and was nominated for the Cognitive Development Society’s Best Authored Volume award. His book The Developing Genome won both the William James Book Award from the Society for General Psychology and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award from the American Psychological Association, recognizing a book expected to have a profound effect on developmental psychology. From 2016-2018, Dr. Moore was the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Developmental Sciences Program, and was elected a Fellow of APA in 2021. He was a 2023-2024 Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and will be a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in The Netherlands in 2025. You can read more about his work at pzacad.pitzer.edu/~dmoore
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