Christopher E. Lalonde

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine self-continuity and its role as a protective factor against suicide among First Nations youth, concluding that anyone whose identity is undermined by radical personal and cultural change is put at special risk of suicide for the reason that they lose those future commitments that are necessary to guarantee appropriate care and concern for their own well-being.

TL;DR: This article found that infants discriminate two categories (ba vs. (Ja) and three categories (Da vs. Da) from a synthetic voiced, unaspirated place-of-articulation continuum.

TL;DR: It is argued that the paradox of "sameness-in-change" arises in the ordinary course of identity development and dictates the different developmental routes taken by culturally mainstream and Aboriginal youth in coming to the identity-preserving conclusion that they and others are somehow continuous through time.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary investigation into how community-level variability in knowledge of Aboriginal languages relate to band-level measures of youth suicide was conducted in the province of British Columbia (BC).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a search for possible relations between children's developing theories of mind and aspects of their social-emotional maturity conducted by comparing the performance of 3-year-olds on measures of false belief understanding with teacher ratings of certain of their emotional skills and behaviours.