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Aletha C. Huston's Degrees

PhD Developmental Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Developmental Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Aletha C. Huston is an American developmental psychologist and professor known for her research on the effects of poverty on children, on how child care and income support policies impact children's development, and for ground-breaking research on the impact of television and media usage on child development. Huston is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor Emeritus in Child Development at the University of Texas at Austin.

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School readiness and later achievement. (2007) (4437)
The relation of child care to cognitive and language development (1999) (679)
Economic well-being and children's social adjustment: the role of family process in an ethnically diverse low-income sample. (2002) (631)
Early childhood television viewing and adolescent behavior: the recontact study. (2001) (565)
Child Care and Mother-Child Interaction in the First Three Years of Life (1999) (514)
Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (2001) (410)
Children and poverty: issues in contemporary research. (1994) (406)
The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary of children from low-income families: the early window project. (2001) (343)
Child-care effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. (2006) (339)
Family Instability and Children's Early Problem Behavior (2006) (321)
Words from Sesame Street : learning vocabulary while viewing (1990) (319)
Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society. (1992) (305)
How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children: A Synthesis of Research. (2001) (287)
Social interactions and play patterns of parents and toddlers with feminine, masculine, and neutral toys. (1989) (279)
Duration and developmental timing of poverty and children's cognitive and social development from birth through third grade. (2005) (277)
Sex Typing and Socialization. (1982) (271)
How young children spend their time: television and other activities. (1999) (265)
Structural and Process Features in Three Types of Child Care for Children from High and Low Income Families. (2008) (252)
Multilevel Factors Influencing Maternal Stress during the First Three Years (2002) (246)
New Hope for People with Low Incomes: Two-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. (1999) (227)
Child-care and family predictors of preschool attachment and stability from infancy. (2001) (225)
Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants (1997) (225)
Work-based antipoverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children. (2001) (218)
Children in poverty : child development and public policy (1993) (210)
The Timing of Family Instability and Children’s Social Development (2008) (203)
Human development in societal context. (2010) (199)
Type of child care and children's development at 54 months (2004) (187)
The Relation Between Selective Attention to Television Forms and Children's Comprehension of Content. (1982) (185)
The development of sex typing: Themes from recent research (1985) (177)
Increases in Maternal Education and Young Children's Language Skills (2009) (177)
Child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months: The NICHD study of early child care - NICHD early child care research network (2001) (173)
Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts (2002) (168)
American children's use of electronic media in 1997: A national survey (2001) (161)
Mothers' time with infant and time in employment as predictors of mother-child relationships and children's early development. (2005) (156)
Fathers' and mothers' parenting behavior and beliefs as predictors of children's social adjustment in the transition to school. (2005) (152)
Development of sex-typed play behavior in toddlers. (1985) (150)
Measuring the Effects of Sexual Content in the Media: A Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation. (1998) (146)
Affect dysregulation in the mother-child relationship in the toddler years: antecedents and consequences. (2004) (143)
Young Children's Perceptions of Television Reality: Determinants and Developmental Differences. (1994) (137)
Development of television viewing patterns in early childhood: A longitudinal investigation. (1990) (136)
Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (2007) (131)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Bridges to Adolescence and Adulthood (2010) (129)
Early child care and mother-child interaction from 36 months through first grade (2003) (125)
Television and families: what do young children watch with their parents? (1991) (125)
Children’s Play Preferences, Construction Play with Blocks, and Visual-spatial Skills: Are they Related? (1999) (124)
Multiple pathways to early academic achievement (2003) (120)
A matter of form: Potentials of television for young viewers. (1983) (117)
The Life Course: A Sociological Perspective. (1987) (109)
Predicting participation and outcomes in out-of-school activities: similarities and differences across social ecologies. (2005) (108)
Television violence and aggression: the debate continues. (1986) (107)
Does class size in first grade relate to children's academic and social performance or observed classroom processes? (2004) (106)
Impacts on children of a policy to promote employment and reduce poverty for low-income parents: new hope after 5 years. (2005) (104)
New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. Summary Report. (2003) (102)
Communicating More than Content: Formal Features of Children's Television Programs (1981) (99)
When celebrities talk, children listen: An experimental analysis of children's responses to TV ads with celebrity endorsement (1984) (99)
The socialization context of gender role development in early adolescence (1990) (95)
Predictors of Children's Electronic Media Use: An Examination of Three Ethnic Groups (2003) (94)
The mother-infant relationship in single, cohabiting, and married families: a case for marriage? (2004) (92)
Child Care Assistance Policies Can Affect the Use of Center-Based Care for Children in Low-Income Families (2005) (90)
Television and children's gender schemata. (1987) (87)
Are child developmental outcomes related to before- and after-school care arrangements? Results from the NICHD study of early child care. (2004) (83)
Socioeconomic status, schooling, and the developmental trajectories of adolescents. (2007) (81)
The forms of television: Effects on children’s attention, comprehension, and social behavior (1983) (77)
UNDERSTANDING POSITIVE FATHER-CHILD INTERACTION: CHILDREN’S, FATHERS’, AND MOTHERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS (2010) (76)
Occupational portrayals on television: children's role schemata, career aspirations, and perceptions of reality. (1995) (74)
"School readiness and later achievement": Correction to Duncan et al. (2007). (2008) (72)
Time spent in child care: How and why does it affect social development? (2015) (70)
Public Policy and Children's Television (1989) (69)
From research to policy and back. (2008) (66)
Child Care and Child Development (2001) (65)
Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low-income families? (2004) (65)
Gender-Role Cognition in Three-Year-Old Boys and Girls (2000) (61)
Reforms and child development. (2002) (57)
Are Middle Schools Harmful? The Role of Transition Timing, Classroom Quality and School Characteristics (2012) (56)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Middle Childhood: Contexts of Development (2006) (55)
The effects of television form and violent content on boys' attention and social behavior. (1986) (54)
A tale of two methods: comparing regression and instrumental variables estimates of the effects of preschool child care type on the subsequent externalizing behavior of children in low-income families. (2010) (54)
Televised Occupational Stereotypes and their Effects on Early Adolescents: Are they Changing? (1987) (53)
Pace and Continuity of Television Programs: Effects on Children's Attention and Comprehension. (1984) (52)
On "The role of parents in the ontogeny of achievement-related motivation and behavioral choices". (2015) (51)
The Forms of Television and the Child Viewer (1989) (50)
Poverty and Behavior: The Case for Multiple Methods and Levels of Analysis☆☆☆★ (1997) (50)
Form cues and content difficulty as determinants of children's cognitive processing of televised educational messages. (1987) (48)
Predictors of children's entertainment television viewing: Why are they tuning in?☆ (1996) (48)
Activity level and sex-stereotyped toy choice in toddler boys and girls. (1985) (46)
The Effects of Television Commercial Form and Commercial Placement on Children's Social Behavior and Attention. (1982) (46)
Children's auditory and visual processing of narrated and nonnarrated television programming. (1991) (45)
Age of Entry to Kindergarten and Children's Academic Achievement and Socioemotional Development. (2007) (45)
Television and Socialization of Young Children (1996) (44)
Pace and Continuity of Television Programs: Effects on Children's Attention and Comprehension (2004) (42)
New Hope for the Working Poor Effects After Eight Years for Families and Children (2008) (42)
How Children Reacted to Televised Coverage of the Space Shuttle Disaster (1989) (41)
Building the Workforce Our Youngest Children Deserve (2012) (41)
Educating children with television: the forms of the medium. (1994) (40)
Assessing the effects of a work-based antipoverty program for parents on youth's future orientation and employment experiences. (2011) (40)
Children in Poverty: Designing Research to Affect Policy (1994) (40)
Sex-typed play of toddlers in a day care center☆ (1983) (39)
Family ecology and child characteristics that predict young children's educational television viewing. (1989) (39)
Television and the Informational and Educational Needs of Children (1998) (38)
From Television Forms to Genre Schemata: Children's Perceptions of Television Reality (1993) (38)
Effects of television preplay formats on children's attention and story comprehension☆ (1987) (37)
Gender, adult structuring of activities, and social behavior in middle childhood. (1986) (36)
Perceived television reality and children's emotional and cognitive responses to its social content (1995) (34)
Connecting the Science of Child Development to Public Policy (2005) (34)
Replays as repetitions: Young children's interpretation of television forms☆ (1986) (34)
From Attention to Comprehension: How Children Watch and Learn From Television (2009) (34)
Qualitative/Quantitative Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation (2002) (31)
Modification of preschool sex-typed behaviors by participation in adult-structured activities (1986) (31)
Effects of documentary and fictional television formats on children's acquisition of schemata for unfamiliar occupations (1997) (30)
Children's Comprehension of Televised Formal Features with Masculine and Feminine Connotations. (1984) (28)
Children's early child care and their mothers' later involvement with schools. (2012) (27)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Low-Income Children's Activity Participation as a Predictor of Psychosocial and Academic Outcomes in Middle Childhood and Adolescence (2006) (24)
Children in poverty: Can public policy alleviate the consequences? (2011) (23)
Children's Television Programming and the “Free Market Solution” (1990) (22)
Effects of a Poverty Intervention Policy Demonstration on Parenting and Child Behavior: A Test of the Direction of Effects* (2007) (22)
Effects of poverty on children. (1999) (21)
Media, children and the family (1994) (20)
A day in third grade: Classroom quality, teacher, and student behaviors (2005) (20)
Gender differences in visual attention to television form and content (1988) (20)
Depressive Symptoms and Economic Outcomes of Low‐Income Women: A Review of the Social Causation, Social Selection, and Interactionist Hypotheses (2009) (20)
Effects of Employment‐Based Programs on Families by Prior Levels of Disadvantage (2008) (19)
A Scale of Positive Social Behaviors (2005) (19)
Media, children, and the family : social scientific, psychodynamic, and clinical perspectives (2013) (19)
Sesame Street Viewers as Adolescents: The Recontact Study (2014) (17)
The Timing of Motherhood. (1987) (16)
Building the Workforce Our Youngest Children Deserve and commentaries (2012) (16)
Welfare Reform and Its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor: How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent School Performance: Investigating Pathways of Influence with Experimental Data (2009) (16)
Psychometric Analyses of the Positive Behavior Scale in the New Hope Project and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2003) (16)
7 – Gender Differences in Preschool Classrooms: The Effects of Sex-Typed Activity Choices* (1985) (15)
Does Child Care Assistance Matter? The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Preschool- and Young School-Aged Children (2001) (15)
Can Television Teach Prosocial Behavior (1983) (15)
Children's understanding of the forms of television (1981) (14)
Television and the moral judgment of the young child (1990) (14)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: The Relations of Classroom Contexts in the Early Elementary Years to Children's Classroom and Social Behavior (2006) (13)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Experiences in Middle Childhood and Children's Development: A Summary and Integration of Research (2006) (13)
Effects of induced success/failure and attributions on the problem‐solving behavior of psychologically androgynous and feminine women (1982) (12)
The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Children's Participation in Head Start. (2007) (12)
The long-term effects on children and adolescents of a policy providing work supports for low-income parents. (2011) (11)
The Developing Child. 4th ed. (1985) (10)
IX. Self‐Image: Role Model Preference And Body Image (2001) (9)
How Can Public Policy Improve Quality of Early Care and Education? (2008) (9)
Gender-Related Personality Attributes and Reaction to Success/Failure: An Examination of Mediating Variables (1986) (8)
Studying Media Effects on Children (2009) (7)
New Hope's Effects on Social Behavior, Parenting, and Activities at Eight Years (2008) (7)
Study of Early Education in Texas The Relationship of Pre-K Attendance to 3rd Grade Test Results (2012) (7)
Long-Term Effects of New Hope on Children's Academic Achievement and Achievement Motivation (2008) (7)
Does Child Care Assistance Matter? The Effects of Welfare and Employment Programs on Child Care for Very Young Children (2001) (6)
Developmental changes in impacts of an antipoverty experiment on low-income children's structured out-of-school time. (2013) (6)
A Content Analysis of Prime-Time TV and Radio News in Puerto Rico (1986) (6)
Children in Poverty and Public Policy. (1995) (6)
Developmental Contexts in Middle Childhood: Effects of a Family Poverty Intervention Program Last from Middle Childhood to Adolescence (2006) (6)
IV. Academic Achievement (2001) (5)
Media Influence, Public Policy, and the Family (2013) (5)
Can Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Family Functioning and Enhance Children's Well-Being? (1999) (5)
Working Families Should Not Be Poor: The New Hope Program (2008) (4)
Pornography Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behavior (2013) (4)
Family Environment and Television Use by Preschool Children. (1983) (4)
Television and Families : Parental Coviewing and Young Children ' s Language Development , Social Behavior : and Television Processing (2007) (4)
Adult Development and Aging. (1985) (3)
A path to interdisciplinary scholarship. (2012) (3)
Media Influences and Personality Development: The Inner Image and the Outer World (2013) (3)
VII. Extracurricular Activities (2001) (3)
Development of Racial Attitudes and Identity in Children: A Review of the Literature. (2000) (3)
A Systematic Review of the Effects of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Pornography (2013) (3)
Children's Reasoning about Video and Real Balance-Scale Problems (1996) (3)
Child Care in a Changing Society. (1991) (3)
Evaluating the Classroom Viewing of a Television Series: "Degrassi Junior High" (2013) (3)
Television and Aggression Around the World. (1987) (3)
Confronting Children's Fright Responses to Mass Media (2013) (3)
Social Policy Report V. 26, #1. Building the Workforce Our Youngest Children Deserve (2012) (2)
Developmental Psychology and Social Change: The Effects of Welfare Reform and Poverty Policies on Children and Families (2005) (2)
Welfare and child-care policy effects on very young children’s child-care experiences (2013) (2)
III. Media Use In Adolescence (2001) (2)
Thoughts on “Probability Values and Human Values in Evaluating Single-Sex Education” (2015) (2)
From research to policy: choosing questions and interpreting the answers. (2002) (2)
VIII. Health Behaviors (2001) (1)
Thoughts on “Probability Values and Human Values in Evaluating Single-Sex Education” (2015) (1)
The Information Processing Demands of Television and "Media Literacy" in Young Viewers. (1982) (1)
Teaching Learning in the Preschool: A Dialogue Approach (Rev. ed.). (1986) (1)
X. Summary And Conclusions (2001) (1)
Family Images and Family Actions as Presented in the Media (2013) (1)
Poverty, Public Policy, and Children's Wellbeing (2014) (1)
U.S. Commentary: Effects of Housing Subsidies on the Well-Being of Children and Their Families in the Family Options Study (2017) (0)
Policies for Children: Social Obligation, Not Handout (2021) (0)
Consequences of Family Change for Children's Development. (1989) (0)
Becoming a Woman: A Mixed Blessing. (1985) (0)
A Matter of Form: Potentials for Young Viewers. (1983) (0)
The children of New Hope, five years later (2004) (0)
Televison and Aggression: Recent Developments in Research and Theory (2013) (0)
Achievement: An American preoccupation. (1981) (0)
Review of The Kids' Book About Single-Parent Families. (1986) (0)
Learning from Prosocial Television (2011) (0)
Contemporary Adulthood (3rd ed.). (1987) (0)
Family Instability and Childrens Friendships and Social Competencies in Elementary School (2006) (0)
Effects of United States Income and Work Supports Policies on Children in Low‐Income Families (2017) (0)
The Educational Impact of Television Forms and Formats (1984) (0)
Reducing Sex-Typed Perceptions of Children: The Role of Environmental Exposure. (1993) (0)
The Hazards of Growing Up Poor. (2001) (0)
Adolescence: Theories, Research, Applications. (1986) (0)
Parental influence on sex-typed toy preference in toddlers (1986) (0)
The Effects of Positive Portrayals of Black Television Characters on Black Children's Racial Attitudes, Self-Perception, and Racial Identification. (2001) (0)
Parents and Work: Can Public Policy Resolve the Conflicts? (1990) (0)
Content Trends in Media Sex (2013) (0)
A Life at the Intersection of Science and Social Issues (2018) (0)
Cognitive Development and Home Environment as Predictors of Children's Attention to Television. (1986) (0)
Understanding of gender and sex-typed play in infancy (1984) (0)
How Welfare and Employment Policies Influence Children's Development (2012) (0)
Are Middle Schools Harmful? The Role of Transition Timing, Classroom Quality and School Characteristics (2011) (0)
II. Method Overview (2001) (0)
Adolescence: A Developmental Transition. (1986) (0)
School Attachment Measure (2014) (0)

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