The emergence of a research literature exploring parallels between physical and
nonphysical (ie, social, relational, indirect) forms of aggression has raised many questions …

The ability to balance cooperative and competitive behaviors has important implications for
a child's overall development. While socially competent children appear to learn highly …

The features, processes, and effects of children's experiences with their peers exist on
multiple levels of social complexity and intersect with many other developmental domains …

Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for children wherein
they acquire a wide range of behaviors, skills, and attitudes that influence their adaptation …

This chapter first traces peer experiences and relationships from their building blocks in
infancy and early childhood through their advances in adolescence. It then discusses the …

Despite their potentially central role in fostering school readiness, executive function (EF)
skills have received little explicit attention in the design and evaluation of school readiness …

Utilizing a diverse sample of 356 four‐year‐old children attending Head Start, this study
examined the degree to which behavioral aspects of school readiness, including classroom …

Research Findings: This study examined the stability of preschoolers' peer play behavior
across the school year and the relations between emotion regulation, receptive vocabulary …

Executive function (EF) has been implicated in childhood aggression. Understanding of the
role of EF in aggression has been hindered, however, by the lack of research taking into …

This article makes the case for shifting the national focus from bullying prevention to the
systemic integration of evidence-based practices of social and emotional learning (SEL) into …