ALT Paper highlights: prenatal anxiety, type of birth, post natal depression and mothers' feelings about relationship to infant predict infant morning cortisol levels.

ALT paper highlights: Encoding of external features supports face recognition Children and adults fixate less on external features of previously viewed than novel faces Adults, but not children, view the eye region of previously viewed faces more than novel faces

ALT Paper highlights: We examine cross‐lagged associations between children's peer relationships and executive functions in the school context. Peer acceptance predicts working memory development and peer rejection predicts inhibition development in middle childhood. Executive functioning development is sensitive to children's social experiences with peers at school.

ALT paper highlights: Structural equation modelling revealed school readiness beliefs were positively related to home‐based involvement, which in turn was positively associated with children's academic achievement and socio‐emotional competencies. Parents' school readiness beliefs are an important target for enhancing children's academic achievement and socio‐emotional competencies during the transition to kindergarten.

ALT Paper highlights: 4.5‐5.5 years completed working memory and go/no‐go tasks to assess executive function. Parents reported on household socioeconomic status, well‐being, household chaos and neighborhood chaos. In more chaotic neighbourhoods, SES was significantly related to child executive functions such that children with both high‐SES and high‐neighbourhood chaos showed better executive function performance.