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Theory of Mind

Beyond the Preschool Years

  • By Scott A. Miller.

Published April 2012

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding. By highlighting the relationship between early and later…
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A Dynamic Systems Approach to Adolescent Development

A Dynamic Systems Approach to Adolescent Development
  • Edited by Saskia Kunnen.

Published November 2011

The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate…
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Social and Personality Development

An Advanced Textbook

Social and Personality Development
  • Edited by Michael E. Lamb, and Marc H. Bornstein.

Published March 2011

This new text contains parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition, along with new introductory material, providing a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of social and personality development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the history…
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Social Understanding and Social Lives

From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School

Social Understanding and Social Lives
  • By Claire Hughes.

Published March 2011

Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in children’s social understanding between toddlerhood and the early school years. However, it is still unclear why some children’s awareness of others' thoughts and feelings lags so far behind that of their peers. Based on…
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National Identity and Ingroup-Outgroup Attitudes in Children: The Role of Socio-Historical Settings

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

National Identity and Ingroup-Outgroup Attitudes in Children: The Role of Socio-Historical Settings
  • Edited by Louis Oppenheimer, and Martyn Barrett.

Published January 2011

This special issue reports the findings from eight studies which examined children’s national identifications and national attitudes. Data were collected from 725 7- and 11-year-old children living in countries that have or have not experienced violence or war in the recent past. Twelve national…
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Adolescent Rationality and Development

Cognition, Morality, and Identity, Third Edition

Adolescent Rationality and Development
  • By David Moshman.

Published January 2011

Frequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily life. Major developmental changes associated with adolescence are identified. Noted for its…
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Deception

A Young Person's Life Skill?

Deception
  • By Rachel Taylor, and Lynsey Gozna.

Published November 2010

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological…
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Nurturing Natures

Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development

Nurturing Natures
  • By Graham Music.

Published September 2010

This book provides an indispensable account of current understandings of children’s emotional development. Integrating the latest research findings from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience and developmental psychology, it weaves these into a readable and easy-to-digest text. It provides…
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The Child as Social Person

The Child as Social Person
  • By Sara Meadows.

Published December 2009

Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social world that surrounds them but they also shape the social worlds that they, and those…
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Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems

From Genes to Social Policy

Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems
  • Edited by Richard E. Tremblay, Marcel A. G. van Aken and Willem Koops.

Published March 2009

This book brings together world leading researchers from diverse fields to explore the potential causes of the development of behaviour problems. The book presents theories that hope to influence public health, education and social policy in the prevention of the costly social troubles that…
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