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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

  • 1st Edition, Volume 65 - July 21, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jeffrey J. Lockman
  • Language: English

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 65, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely update… Read more

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Description

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 65, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, 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 area 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. Children’s beliefs in invisible causal agents – both religious and scientific

Ayse Payir, Kathleen H. Corriveau, and Paul L. Harris

2. Development of Representational Theory of Mind: Concepts of Mental States, Awareness of Thinking, and Self-Permanence
William V. Fabricius

3. Objects in a social world: Infants’ object representational capacity limits are shaped by objects' social relevance
Melissa M. Kibbe and Aimee E. Stahl

4. Curiosity constructs communicative competence through social feedback loop
Julia A. Venditti, Emma Murrugarra, Celia R. McLean, and Michael H. Goldstein

5. Early Care and Education
Margaret Burchinal

6. Designing Learning Environments for Promoting Young People’s Constructive Coping with Climate Change
Abigail Brown, Silvia Collado, Gary W. Evans, and Janet E. Loebach

7. Growing up Amid Conflict: Implications of the Developmental Peacebuilding Model
Celia Bähr and Laura K Taylor

8. Co-Rumination and Conversational Self-Focus:Adjustment Implications of Problem Talk in Adolescents’ Friendships
Amanda J. Rose, Rebecca Schwartz-Mette, Sarah K. Borowski, and Allie Spiekerman

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 65
  • Published: July 21, 2023
  • 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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