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Free Editorial Article from the New Special Section Issue of the International Journal of Psychology Now Available Online

We have made the new Editorial Article of the International Journal of Psychology's latest Special Section issue, titled Culture and Human Development, by A. Bame Nsamenang, free to read online.

Human offspring develop into culturally competent citizens in a huge variety of ecological and cultural circumstances. The selection of papers for this Special Section deals with some dimensions of these issues in contemporary African societies. More explicitly, they provide research-based evidence and programmatic efforts to understand and intervene on factors perceived as thwarting the optimization of human potential in African cultural settings. The papers are special in one important sense - they place an accent on culture as a key determinant of developmental outcome.

read the free introductory editorial of this important new issue

International Journal of Psychology Special Section Issues Now Available for Individual Purchase

Since 2007 the IJP has been publishing Special Section Issues - editions of the journal where a number of articles cover a single subject or respond to a lead paper, alongside the usual varied journal content of unrelated original articles.

So far, the subjects covered are:

• Agency and Human Development in Times of Social Change
• Implicit Representationss and Personality
• Psychological Research in Berlin, the Host City of ICP 2008

Due to the fact that these Special Section issues are likely to be of particular interest to researchers in those specific areas, we have decided to make the print editions available to buy on an individual basis, without need for a personal or institutional subscription.

These issues can be purchased online here

Just Published: Cognitive Development textbook, by Usha Goswami

Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling Cognition in Children.

This full-color textbook has been re-written from the perspective of brain science and shows how new discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider traditional theories of cognitive development.

Goswami considers the established base of cognitive developmental psychology and demonstrates how new data from brain science require a new theoretical framework based on learning. This book presents a new paradigm for teaching cognitive development, going beyond Piaget to learning and the brain...

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Free Special Issue of International Journal of Psychology Now Available!

Ahead of the 29th annual International Congress of Psychology, taking place in Berlin this July, Psychology Press has made Issue 4 of Volume 42 of the International Journal of Psychology, guest edited by Peter Frensch (Humboldt Univerity, Germany) and Ralf Schwarzer (Free University Berlin, Germany) available for free download to all.

The Special Issue is based around the theme of Psychological Research in Berlin, the Host City of ICP 2008, and raises awareness of the broad diversity of psychological research coming out of the city, which boasts three universities with psychology departments, as well as a major psychology research institution: the Humboldt University, the Free University, the University of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute of Human Development.

The International Journal of Pychology is published on behalf of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPSyS), and edited by Claudia Dalbert of Martin Luther University, Germany.

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European Journal of Developmental Psychology to publish an extra issue in 2008!

This year, there will be an extra issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology published, bringing the total number in Volume 5 to five.

The journal is an official publication of the European Society for Developmental Psychology, edited on the society's behalf by Willem Koops of Utrecht University, Netherlands.

It publishes original theoretical, empirical, methodological and review papers dealing with psychological development and developmental psychopathology during infancy, childhood and adolescence.

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Neurocognitive approaches to developmental disorders: A Festschrift for Uta Frith

A special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

This special issue is now available on informaworld.

Uta Frith has been an outstandingly influential figure in the field of developmental neuropsychology for over 40 years, and is internationally renowned for her work on developmental cognitive disorders. Her scholarly influence has defined contemporary research on atypical development, notably in the fields of autism and dyslexia.

This tribute to Uta brings together her former graduate students, post-doctoral scientists and collaborators in a series of papers that provide reflections on current theory and research. The volume bears the hallmark of Uta’s mentoring by including critical 'state of the art' reviews, empirical research which challenges mainstream views and consideration of alternative hypotheses that set the stage for future research. Topics covered include behavioural and neuroimaging studies of autism, dyslexia, psychopathy, as well as theoretical and experimental accounts of normal and abnormal development of intelligence, reading and social cognition.

This special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology will be of interest to all students and researchers in the area.

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