Emotional Development

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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Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan

Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
  • By Elizabeth A. Kensinger.

Published December 2008

Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there…
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Social and Emotional Development

Social and Emotional Development
  • Edited by William M. Bukowski, Brett Laursen and Kenneth H. Rubin.

Published August 2008

Social and Emotional Development, a new four-volume collection from Psychology Press, brings together the most influential and fundamental research in the area, providing readers with a vital overview of the basic theory and the empirical database regarding social and emotional development. The…
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Cognitive Development

Neo-Piagetian Perspectives

Cognitive Development
  • By Sergio Morra, Camilla Gobbo, Zopito Marini and Ronald Sheese.

Published September 2007

Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope,…
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The Development Of Play

The Development Of Play
  • By David Cohen.
  • Edited by David Cohen.
  • Series Edited by David Cohen.

Published February 2006

Why do children play? What can children learn from playing? What have psychologists learned from 150 years of studying play – usually a bit too seriously? The Development of Play explores the central role of play in childhood development. David Cohen examines how children play with objects, with…
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