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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

  • 1st Edition, Volume 63 - July 7, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jeffrey J. Lockman
  • Language: English

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Description

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 63 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Key features

  • Contains chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the areas of child development and behavior
  • Presents a high-quality and wide range of topics covered by well-known professionals

Readership

Professionals, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in developmental psychology and related fields (e.g., clinical psychology, education, nursing, social work, early childhood education, child policy)

Table of contents

1. Why do we have three rational number notations? The importance of percentages
Robert S. Siegler and Jing Tian

2. Calibration and recalibration of stress response systems across development: Implications for mental and physical health
Megan R. Gunnar and Mariann A. Howland

3. Parental sexual orientation, parental gender identity, and the development of children
Charlotte J. Patterson

4. Environmental influences on early language and literacy development: Social policy and educational implications
Meredith L. Rowe

5. Kindness towards all: Prosocial behaviors to address U.S. Latinx youth social inequities
Gustavo Carlo, George P. Knight, and Alexandra N. Davis

6. Pathways for engaging in prosocial behavior in adolescence
Eveline A. Crone, Sophie W. Sweijen, Lysanne W. te Brinke, and Suzanne van de Groep

7. Gaze following in infancy: Five big questions that the field should answer
Kim Astor and Gustaf Gredeback

8. Young children's cooperation and conflict with other children
Dale F. Hay, Amy Paine, and Charlotte Robinson

9. Temporal approaches to the study of friendship: Understanding the developmental significance of friendship change during childhood and adolescence
Julie C. Bowker and Jenna Weingarten

10. The development of metacognitive knowledge from childhood to young adulthood: Major trends and educational implications
Wolfgang Schneider, Catharina Tibken, and Tobias Richter

11. Learning about others and learning from others: Bayesian probabilistic models of intuitive psychology and social learning
Rongzhi Liu and Fei Xu

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 63
  • Published: July 22, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editor

JL

Jeffrey J. Lockman

Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman got his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. His research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. In his recent work, he has been studying the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Additionally, he has been conducting work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

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