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Special Issue

Living in a Digital Ecology:

The Impact on Social Interaction, Learning, and Language Development
Developmental Psychology
August 2026
(Vol.62, No.8)
ISBN:
979-8-90219-003-5
Item #
2146214
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American Psychological Association. (2026). Living in a Digital Ecology: The Impact on Social Interaction, Learning, and Language Development. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/dev/living-digital-ecology

Table of contents

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Introduction

Articles

  • The Impact of Interactivity of Touchscreen Technology on 4- and 5-Year-Old Children’s Causal Learning and Transfer
    Chunying Gao, Jingyi Zhang, Heyi Zhang, Yinghe Chen, and Xiaojuan Niu
  • Let’s Watch and Focus on This: The Effects of Advance Organizers on Young Children’s Learning From Prosocial and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Digital Narratives
    Alanna L. Peebles
  • Temporal Associations Between Parents’ Daily Reports of Media Motivations, Infant Affect, and Parenting Behavior
    Heather Kirkorian, Rachel Barr, Bolim Suh, McCall Booth, M. Annelise Blanchard, Douglas J. Piper, Jennica Li, and Margaret L. Kerr
  • Digital and Physical Play Contexts Influence Mother–Child Spatial Language and Maternal Questions
    Sierra Eisen and Jamie J. Jirout
  • Digital Technology Use and Associations With Children’s Learning and Social Interaction: A Longitudinal Approach
    Ross D. Neville, Elizabeth Al-Jbouri, and Sheri Madigan
  • Parent Personality, Child Temperament, and Digital Media: Pathways to Language Development in Early Childhood
    Syakira Wijaya, Sneh Jhaveri, Lynn K. Perry, Rachel Barr, and Sarah C. Kucker
  • Patterns of Infants’ Digital Exposure in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: Links to the Family Environment and Toddler-Age Language
    Jessica A. Willard, Dave Möwisch, Manja Attig, Susanne Enke, Pia Iken, Gizem Samdan, Sebastian Then, and Sabine Weinert
  • Children’s Cortical Speech Tracking in Child–Adult and Child–Robot Interactions
    Fatih Sivridag and Nivedita Mani
  • Bidirectional Relationships of Parenting Stress, Media Use for Behavior Management, and Children’s Behavior Problems From 9 to 30 Months
    Stephanie M. Reich, Rebecca Dore, Aubree Krager, Y. Anthony Chen, Keiana T. Mayfield, Deborah Franza, and Natasha Cabrera
  • Integrating Digital Technologies in Shared Reading: Effects of Conversational Agents on Adult–Child Interaction and Children’s Language Learning
    Kathryn Leech, Grace Lin, Dorentina Dedushaj, Ilana Schoenfeld, and John Gabrieli
  • How Digital Reading Habits Shape Reading Motivation and Comprehension Over Time: Longitudinal Associations in Primary School
    Lidia Altamura, Cristina Vargas, Johannes Naumann, and Ladislao Salmerón