Developmental Psychology Arena

Families, Risk, and Competence

• Edited by Michael Lewis, Candice Feiring

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child....

Published July 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Piaget, Evolution, and Development

• Edited by Jonas Langer, Melanie Killen

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development....

Published June 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Psychological Perspectives on Deafness

Volume II

• Edited by Marc Marschark, M. Diane Clark

This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers...

Published June 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Psychological Perspectives on Deafness

Volume II

• Edited by Marc Marschark, M. Diane Clark

This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers...

Published June 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents

Implications for Research and Practice

• Edited by Dennis Drotar

This volume's purpose is to describe concepts and methods concerning assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with a special focus...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Parental Descriptions of Child Personality

Developmental Antecedents of the Big Five?

• Edited by Gedolph A. Kohnstamm, Jr., Charles F. Halverson, Ivan Mervielde, Valerie L. Havill, Charles F. Halverson

This book reports the first attempt in the child development literature to examine the structure of early personality based on parents' free-descriptions of their children....

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Personality Development In Adolescence

A Cross National and Lifespan Perspective

• Edited by Eva Skoe, Anna von der Lippe

The formation of identity in adolescence is the most central concept in psychological and sociological studies of young people. Most theories to date assume that...

Published April 9th 1998 by Routledge.

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Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children

Social Relations in a Multi-Ethnic, Inner City Primary School

• By Paul Connolly

This book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of five and six year old children, drawing upon...

Published April 9th 1998 by Routledge.

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The Development of Language Processing Strategies

A Cross-linguistic Study Between Japanese and English

• By Reiko Mazuka

Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically...

Published April 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

A Developmental Perspective

• Edited by John E. Richards

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention...

Published April 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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