(Not in Emotional Development
The Development of Emotional Intelligence
A Case Study
- By Nadja Reissland.
Published January 2012
How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions – both happy and sad? This book answers questions regarding the foundation of emotional intelligence, and examines how children become emotionally literate as they are socialised into their family environment from birth to 2…
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Social and Personality Development
An Advanced Textbook
- 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
- 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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Nurturing Natures
Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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