Social Development and Personality Development Books

New and Published Books

1. Theory of Mind

   Beyond the Preschool Years

   By Scott A. Miller

   This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding. By highlighting the relationship between early and...

   Published April 5th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. A Dynamic Systems Approach to Adolescent Development

   Edited by Saskia Kunnen

   Series: Studies in Adolescent Development

   The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Psychology Press
3. Social and Personality Development

   An Advanced Textbook

   Edited by Michael E. Lamb, Marc H. Bornstein

   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...

   Published March 24th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. Social Understanding and Social Lives

   From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School

   By Claire Hughes

   Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

   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...

   Published March 22nd 2011 by Psychology Press
5. National Identity and Ingroup-Outgroup Attitudes in Children: The Role of Socio-Historical Settings

   A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

   Edited by Louis Oppenheimer, Martyn Barrett

   Series: Special Issues of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

   This special issue reports the findings from eight studies which examined children’s national identifications and national attitudes. Data were collected from 725 7- and 11-year-old children living in countries that have or have not experienced violence or war in the recent past. Twelve national...

   Published January 31st 2011 by Psychology Press
6. Adolescent Rationality and Development

   Cognition, Morality, and Identity, Third Edition

   By David Moshman

   Frequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily life. Major developmental changes associated with adolescence are identified. Noted for its...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Psychology Press
7. Deception

   A Young Person's Life Skill?

   By Rachel Taylor, Lynsey Gozna

   Series: Studies in Adolescent Development

   This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents’ choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Psychology Press
8. Nurturing Natures

   Attachment and Children's Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development

   By Graham Music

   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...

   Published September 9th 2010 by Psychology Press
9. The Child as Social Person

   By Sara Meadows

   Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social world that surrounds them but they also shape the social worlds that they, and those...

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
10. Life-span Development

    Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies, 3rd Edition

    By Leonie Sugarman

    Series: New Essential Psychology

    This thorough revision of the highly successful first edition of Life-Span Development offers the reader a wide-ranging and thought provoking account of human development throughout the lifespan. The lifespan approach emphasises that development does not stop when we cease to be adolescents but...

    Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge