Common maxims about beauty suggest that attractiveness is not important in life. In contrast,
both fitness-related evolutionary theory and socialization theory suggest that attractiveness …

Humans in societies around the world discriminate between potential mates on the basis of
attractiveness in ways that can dramatically affect their lives. From an evolutionary …

Most individuals are stigmatized at some point. However, research often examines stigmas
separately, thus underestimating the overall impact of stigma and precluding comparisons …

An informal yet rigorous exploration of human emotions in all their complexity and subtlety.
Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as …

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we
are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The …

In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness
as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most …

Abstract Ethologist Konrad Lorenz proposed that baby schema ('Kindchenschema') is a set
of infantile physical features such as the large head, round face and big eyes that is …

“An 8-month-old infant clambers on… a fallen tree while its mother sits about 7 feet below.
The infant slips and hangs by two hands.[His mother] looks up, stands on two legs, and …

The baby schema concept was originally proposed as a set of infantile traits with high
appeal for humans, subsequently shown to elicit caretaking behavior and to affect cuteness …

Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child
development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are …