Published: June 9, 2020

karl hillCU Psychology and Neuroscience Professor Karl Hill (Social, also Director of the Problem Behavior and Positive Youth Development Program in IBS) was in the news, being interviewed for an article in CU Boulder Today about a recent publication appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics. This longitudinal research, a decades-long undertaking, suggests that an early childhood intervention program designed to help kids resist developing problem behaviors can have positive effects lasting not only for years afterwards but possibly across a generation. It is the first published study to show positive outcomes in the offspring of people who had gone through an intervention program of this type. Read the CU Boulder Today article about the research, and/or read the .