1st Edition

Growing Points in Developmental Science An Introduction

Edited By Willard W. Hartup, Rainer K. Silbereisen Copyright 2003
384 Pages
by Psychology Press

384 Pages
by Psychology Press

384 Pages
by Psychology Press

Growing Points in Developmental Science is an ISSBD publication based on the millennium symposia papers published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2000. This collection of overview chapters summarises the state of the art and the way forward for this discipline. Experienced researchers as well as younger, cutting-edge scientists have contributed to this international... Read more
Preface. E. Thelen, Motor Development as Foundation and Future of Developmental Psychology. H.R. Schaffer, The Early Experience Assumption: Past, Present and Future. R. Plomin, Behavioural Genetics in the 21st Century. T.D. Wachs, Nutritional Deficiencies as a Biological Context for Development. E.C. Melhuish, Prospects for Research on the Quality of Pre-School Experience. J. Flavell, Development of Children's Knowledge about the Mental World. G. Hatano, Domain-Specific Constraints of Conceptual Development. W. Schneider, Research on Memory Development: Past and Present. J.F. Dunn, Mindreading, Emotion Understanding, and Relationships. C. van Lieshout, Life-span Personality Development: Individual Differences among Goal-oriented Agents and Developmental Outcome. E.E. Maccoby, Perspectives on Gender Development. T.D. Little, Agency in Development. R.E. Tremblay, The Development of Aggressive Behaviour during Childhood. P. Dasen, Cross-cultural Views on Human Development in the Third Millennium. N. Galambos, Transitions in Adolescent Research. K.W. Schaie, The Impact of Longitudinal Studies on Understanding Development from Young Adulthood to Old Age. W. Hartup, Growing Points in Developmental Science: A Summing Up.

Biography

Willard W. Hartup is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, where he taught for many years. He has also been the Institute's Director and President of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development and the Society for Research in Child Development.

Rainer K. Silbereisen
is Professor and Chair of Developmental Psychology at the University of Jena, and Adjunct Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is President of the German Psychological Association and the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Develoment as well as a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.