Developmental Psychology Arena

Environmental Effects on Cognitive Abilities

• Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko

It sometimes seems that it is difficult to pick up a current newspaper or a magazine without it containing a story about some behavioral characteristic...

Published February 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Understanding and Teaching the Intuitive Mind

Student and Teacher Learning

• Edited by Bruce Torff, Robert J. Sternberg

The intuitive mind is a powerful force in the classroom and often an undetected one. Intuitive conceptions--knowledge or knowledge-structures that individuals acquire and use largely...

Published January 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Does It Take A Village?

Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Does It Take a Village? focuses on the mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them--community norms, economic...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Language

Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

• Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Language

Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

• Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles

• Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Li-fang Zhang

This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that:
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Published January 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Working with Piaget

Essays in Honour of Barbel Inhelder

• Edited by Anastasia Tryphon, Jacques Voneche

For fifty years Bärbel Inhelder (1913-1997) was the research companion of Jean Piaget. In this unique volume, published in her honour, leading international researchers examine...

Published December 21st 2000 by Psychology Press.

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Is There Life Without Mother?

Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity

• By Leonard Shengold

In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary...

Published December 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Time and Intimacy

A New Science of Personal Relationships

• By Joel B. Bennett

There is a mysterious connection between our experiences of intimacy--of love, the longing to feel connected, and sexual embrace--and the human sense of time--eternity, impermanence,...

Published November 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Obedience to Authority

Current Perspectives on the Milgram Paradigm

• Edited by Thomas Blass

Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority are among the most important psychological studies of this century. Perhaps because of the enduring significance of the...

Published November 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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