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Terrie Moffitt is awarded Juvenile Justice Without Borders International Award
Wednesday, December 12, 2018Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Psychology & Neuroscience, is one of six awardees of an international prize from the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO), which is based in Belgium. She’s being recognized for her work on human development and its... read more about Terrie Moffitt is awarded Juvenile Justice Without Borders International Award »
Terrie Moffitt Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Monday, October 15, 2018Terrie E. Moffitt, Ph.D., the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, an honorific society for exceptional leaders. Established by Congress in 1863, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and... read more about Terrie Moffitt Elected to National Academy of Medicine »
The Anatomy of Loneliness
Tuesday, October 2, 201855,000 people completed the BBC Loneliness Experiment. Claudia Hammond reveals the results and discovers the loneliest times of life and the top solutions in tackling loneliness. The documentary features interviews with researchers from the E-Risk Study. View the 3-part documentary. read more about The Anatomy of Loneliness »
Farm House Receives Architectural Recognition
Thursday, July 26, 2018Recognizing excellence in North Carolina Modernist Residential Design, Drs. Moffitt & Caspi's farm house received third place honors for the George Matsumoto Prize — the 2018 NC Modernist Houses architectural competition. Learn more about the award-winning residence in the video on left. read more about Farm House Receives Architectural Recognition »
Dunedin Study: Audio News Story
Tuesday, May 15, 2018Clinical psychologist Terrie Moffitt has been monitoring the same group of people in the same study since the 1980s. If you’re counting, that’s almost 40 years. She’s watched them grow up — and is now watching them grow old. She and her collaborators, an international consortium of scientists... read more about Dunedin Study: Audio News Story »
Psychological Scientists Honored by OBSSR
Tuesday, March 27, 2018The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) has announced that psychological scientists are taking home top honors at its annual event recognizing the best in behavioral science. APS Fellow Terrie E. Moffitt has been named the NIH Matilda White... read more about Psychological Scientists Honored by OBSSR »
Data Collection in Phase 45 of the Dunedin Study
Wednesday, February 28, 2018Drs. Moffitt & Caspi provide a 10-minute overview of the exciting new data that are being collected as part of the age-45 assessment in the Dunedin Study. read more about Data Collection in Phase 45 of the Dunedin Study »
Two psychologists followed 1000 New Zealanders for decades. Here’s what they found about how childhood shapes later life
Thursday, February 1, 2018In 1987, Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt, two postdocs in psychology, had adjacent displays at the poster session of a conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Caspi, generally not a forward man, looked over at Moffitt's poster and was dazzled by her science. "You have the most beautiful data set," he... read more about Two psychologists followed 1000 New Zealanders for decades. Here’s what they found about how childhood shapes later life »