In the 20th century, mother-infant separation shortly after birth in hospitals became routine
and unique to humans. However, this hospital birth practice is different from the practice in …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

The chapter presents an overview of the attitude literature, focusing on the contributions that
were offered between 1995 and 2010. These analyses have been conducted almost entirely …

Face perception remains one of the most intensively researched areas in psychology and
allied disciplines, and there has been much debate regarding the early origins and …

Evidence indicating that sex-linked toy preferences exist in two nonhuman primate species
support the hypothesis that developmental sex differences such as those observed in …

Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging
conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook …

The concept of adaptation is ubiquitous in psychology and plays a central role in
evolutionary psychology. In this article I provide a different way of thinking about adaptations …

This theoretical article aims to create a conceptual framework for future research on digital
methods for assessing cognition in children through estimating shared intentionality …

This topically-organized text provides a comprehensive overview of infant development with
a strong theoretical and research base. Readers gain a clear understanding of infant …