ECDP


            
 

 

The organizers of the XIV European Conference on Developmental Psychology have 

a great honour and pleasure of inviting you to take part in this conference to be 

held in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 18-22, 2009. 

  

The conference will focus on the most relevant topics and issues within recent 

theoretical and methodological advances of developmental psychology, basic 

research and applied areas and will provide a forum for presentation of a wide 

range of papers in all aspects of human development in European contexts. Over 

and beyond basic research, we will put emphasis on the transfer of psychological 

insights to social policies and programme development. Pre-conference workshops 

will be held on August 17 - 18, 2009. 

 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS & THEIR LECTURE TOPICS 

 

• Prof. Lars R. Bergman | “Methodological challenges for developmental  
psychology“ 

• Prof. Nathan A. Fox | “The effects of early experience on brain and behavioral 
development: the Bucharest Early Intervention Project” 

• Prof. Angela D. Friederici | “Brain correlates of language acquisition” 
• Prof. Leon Kuczynski | “Conceptual frameworks for studying dynamics in 
parent-child relationships and interactions” 

• Prof. Heikki Lyytinen | “Early identification and prevention of dyslexia: Highlights 
from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal study of Dyslexia (JLD)” 

• Prof. Dan Olweus | “Large-scale dissemination of the Olweus Bullying Prevention 
Program and some methodological issues in the study of bully/victim problems” 

• Prof. Dr. Rainer K. Silbereisen | “Coping with demands of social change across 
the lifespan” 

 

 

        PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS  

 

                     August 17 

• The model of hierarchical complexity: scoring for stage of development, 
creating new problems and dilemmas, and analyzing social problems 

• Bayesian evaluation of informative hypotheses 
 

                     August 18 

• Methodological issues in the analysis of longitudinal data  
• Olweus bullying prevention program 
 



INVITED SYMPOSIUMS 

 

• Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents 
• Symposium on language acquisition 
• Family functioning and psychosocial adaptation in immigrant children and 
youth 

• Life span development of cognitive functions 
• Learning outcomes in the early school years: Predictability from pre-school 
information and intervention strategies 

• Bullying in schools: Findings and policy implications after a quarter century of 
research 

• Functional brain development in infancy 
 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE  

YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT  

CONFERENCE WEBSITE WWW.ECDP2009.COM  

 

 

 

Organizers: