The contribution of cognitive perspectives (cognitive-developmental theory and gender
schema theory) to a contemporary understanding of gender development is evaluated …

Neuroscience needs behavior. However, it is daunting to render the behavior of organisms
intelligible without suppressing most, if not all, references to life. When animals are treated …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

During the last decade there has been increased awareness of the limitations of standard
approaches to the study of development. When the focus is on variables and relationships …

Four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded
informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory …

The average toddler can run circles around the world's most sophisticated robots. Sure,
robots can dole out pharmaceuticals, build cars, vacuum your house, and collect rocks from …

Drawing on data from a normative sample of 205 children tracked into adulthood, this study
examined the predictive links from 3 salient (friendship, academic, conduct) and 2 emerging …

This chapter focuses on interest as a key motivational construct for investigating the relation
between motivation and engagement. The emphasis is on identifying the links between the …

Ecological validity has typically been taken to refer to whether or not one can generalize
from observed behavior in the laboratory to natural behavior in the world. Although common …

The purpose of this article is to develop a preliminary comprehensive model of antisocial
development based on dynamic systems principles. The model is built on the foundations of …